The Book of Involutions
(1998) ISBN: [0-8218-0904-0], xxi + 593 p. pages, published
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- Abstract
- This monograph yields a comprehensive exposition of the theory of central simple algebras with involution, in relation with linear algebraic groups. It aims to provide the algebra-theoretic foundations for much of the recent work on linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields. Involutions are viewed as twisted forms of similarity classes of hermitian or bilinear forms, leading to new developments on the model of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms. Besides classical groups, phenomena related to triality are also discussed, as well as groups of type F_4 or G_2 arising from exceptional Jordan or composition algebras. Several results and notions appear here for the first time, notably the discriminant algebra of an algebra with unitary involution and the algebra-theoretic counterpart to linear groups of type D_4. For research mathematicians and graduate students working in central simple algebras, algebraic groups, nonabelian Galois cohomology or Jordan algebras.
- Affiliations
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Departement Mathematik University of California Los Angeles Department of Mathematics Universität Regensburg Departement Mathematik Collège de France Chaire de Théorie des Groupes
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Knus, M.-A., Merkurjev, A. S., Rost, M., & Tignol, J.-P. (1998). The Book of Involutions. American Mathematical Society. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/252272