Azumaya algebras with involution

Azumaya algebras and derivations

Motives of Azumaya Algebras

We study the slice filtration for the K-theory of a sheaf of Azumaya algebras A, and for the motive of a Severi-Brauer variety, the latter in the case of a central simple algebra of prime degree over a field. Using the Beilinson-Lichtenbaum conjecture, we apply our results to show the vanishing of SK2(A) for a central simple algebra A of square-free index (prime to the characteristic). This pro...

Deformations of Azumaya Algebras

In this paper we compute the deformation theory of a special class of algebras, namely of Azumaya algebras on a manifold (C or complex analytic). Deformation theory of associative algebras was initiated by Gerstenhaber in [G]. A deformation of an associative algebra A over an Artinian ring a is an a-linear associative algebra structure on A⊗ a such that, for the maximal ideal m of a, A ⊗ m is a...

Normed algebras with involution

We show that most of the theory of Hermitian Banach algebras can be proved for normed ∗-algebras without the assumption of completeness. The condition r(x) ≤ p(x) for all x (where p(x) = r(x∗x)1/2 is the Pták function), which is essential in the theory of Hermitian Banach algebras, is replaced for normed ∗-algebras by the condition r(x + y) ≤ p(x) + p(y) for all x, y. In case of Banach ∗-algebr...

Azumaya Algebras and Canonical Components

Let M be a compact 3-manifold and Γ = π1(M). The work of Thurston and Culler–Shalen established the SL2(C) character variety X(Γ) as fundamental tool in the study of the geometry and topology of M . This is particularly so in the case when M is the exterior of a hyperbolic knot K in S. The main goals of this paper are to bring to bear tools from algebraic and arithmetic geometry to understand a...