English Explanatory Dictionary

Brauer group

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. For a field K, an abelian group whose elements are Morita equivalence classes of central simple algebras over K, with addition given by the tensor product of algebras.

Word forms

Brauer group Brauer groups

Etymology

Defined by the algebraist Richard Brauer.

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