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# Value functions and associated graded rings for semisimple algebras

(Impact Factor: 1.1). 02/2009; 362(02):687-726. DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04681-9

ABSTRACT We introduce a type of value function y called a gauge on a finite-dimensional semisimple algebra A over a field F with valuation v. The filtration on A induced by y yields an associated graded ring gry(A) which is a graded algebra over the graded field grv(F). Key requirements for y to be a gauge are that gry(A) be graded semisimple and that dimgrv(F)(gry(A)) = dimF(A). It is shown that gauges behave well with respect to scalar extensions and tensor products. When v is Henselian and A is central simple over F, it is shown that gry(A) is simple and graded Brauer equivalent to grw(D) where D is the division algebra Brauer equivalent to A and w is the valuation on D extending v on F. The utility of having a good notion of value function for central simple algebras, not just division algebras, and with good functorial properties, is demonstrated by giving new and greatly simplified proofs of some difficult earlier results on valued division algebras.

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• "Then, as B 0 is simple, by Cor. 2.3 of [8], θ E ′ = θ B where θ B is the map defined in (2.5) of [8]. So, the commutativity of the above diagram is followed. "
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• "Let (F, v) be an arbitrary valued field and V a finite-dimensional F -vector space. We recall from [7] and [11] that a v-value function on V is a map α : V → Γ ∪ {∞} satisfying the following properties, for x, y ∈ V and λ ∈ F : (i) α(x) = ∞ if and only if x = 0; (ii) α(xλ) = α(x) + v(λ); (iii) α(x + y) ≥ min α(x), α(y) . The v-value function α is called a v-norm if there is a base (e i ) n i=1 of V that splits α in the following sense: "
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• "As it is mentioned in [15], even though computations in the graded setting are easier (and discrete), it seems not so much is lost in passage from D to its corresponding graded division algebra grD. This was a motivation to the systematic study of graded central simple algebras and their correspondences, notably by Boulagouaz [4], Hwang, Tignol and Wadsworth [13] [14] [15] [19] and to the comparison of certain functors defined on these objects, notably the Brauer group and the reduced Whitehead group. Recall that a unital ring R = γ∈Γ R γ is called a graded ring if Γ is a group, each R γ is a subgroup of (R, +) and R γ · R δ ⊆ R γ+δ for all γ, δ ∈ Γ. "
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