The Brauer group of polynomial rings

The Brauer group of Burnside rings

The Brauer group of a commutative ring is an important invariant of a commutative ring, a common journeyman to the group of units and the Picard group. Burnside rings of finite groups play an important rôle in representation theory, and their groups of units and Picard groups have been studied extensively. In this short note, we completely determine the Brauer groups of Burnside rings: they van...

Differential Polynomial Rings of Triangular Matrix Rings

Brauer Algebras and the Brauer Group

An algebra is a vector space V over a field k together with a kbilinear product of vectors under which V is a ring. A certain class of algebras, called Brauer algebras algebras which split over a finite Galois extension appear in many subfields of abstract algebra, including K-theory and class field theory. Beginning with a definition of the the tensor product, we define and study Brauer algebr...

Cyclic Group Actions on Polynomial Rings

We consider a cyclic group of order p acting on a module incharacteristic p and show how to reduce the calculation of the symmetric algebra to that of the exterior algebra. Consider a cyclic group of order p acting on a polynomial ring S = k[x1, . . . , xr], where k is a field of characteristic p; this is equivalent to the symmetric algebra S∗(V ) on the module V generated by x1, . . . , xr. We...

Lie Group Representations on Polynomial Rings

0. Introduction. 1. Let G be a group of linear transformations on a finite dimensional real or complex vector space X. Assume X is completely reducible as a G-module. Let 5 be the ring of all complexvalued polynomials on X, regarded as a G-module in the obvious way, and let J C 5 be the subring of all G-invariant polynomials on X. Now let J be the set of all ƒ £ J having zero constant term and ...