Division algebras with infinite genus.

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDT104zbMATH Open1301.16021arXiv1301.5632OpenAlexW3103955568MaRDI QIDQ5419232FDOQ5419232

Authors: Jeffrey S. Meyer 

Publication date: 6 June 2014

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To what extent does the maximal subfield spectrum of a division algebra determine the isomorphism class of that algebra? It has been shown that over some fields a quaternion division algebra's isomorphism class is largely if not entirely determined by its maximal subfield spectrum. However in this paper, we show that there are fields for which the maximal subfield spectrum says little to nothing about a quaternion division algebra's isomorphism class. We give an explicit construction of a division algebra with infinite genus. Along the way we introduce the notion of a "linking field extension," which we hope will be of independent interest. We go on to show that there exists a field K for which (1) there are infinitely many nonisomorphic quaternion division algebras with center K, and (2) any two quaternion division algebra with center K are pairwise weakly isomorphic. In fact we show that there are infinitely many nonisomorphic fields satisfying these two conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5632

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zbMATH Keywords

maximal subfieldsBrauer groupsquaternion division algebrasfinite-dimensional central division algebras\(n\)-fold Pfister formsgenus of division algebrasmaximal subfield spectraweakly isomorphic division algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Skew fields, division rings (12E15) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Brauer groups (algebraic aspects) (16K50) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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