Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4587011 | Journal of Algebra | 2010 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
By a theorem of Albert's, a central simple associative algebra has an involution of the first kind if and only if it is of order 2 in the Brauer group. Our main purpose is to develop the theory of existence of anti-automorphisms of order 2 of the first kind on finite dimensional central simple associative superalgebras over K, where K is a field of arbitrary characteristic. First we need to generalize the Skolem–Noether Theorem to the superalgebra case. Then we show which kind of finite dimensional central simple superalgebras have an anti-automorphism of order 2 of the first kind.
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