Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4587011 Journal of Algebra 2010 11 Pages PDF
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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