We investigate a class of algebras that provides multiparameter versions of both quantum symplectic space and quantum Euclidean 2n-space. These algebras encompass the graded quantized Weyl algebras, the quantized Heisenberg space, and a class of algebras introduced by Oh. We describe the structure of the prime and primitive ideals of these algebras. Other structural results include normal separ...

The main goal of the paper is to establish the existence of tensor product decompositions for those prime ideals P of the algebra A = Oq(Mn(k)) of quantum n× n matrices which are invariant under winding automorphisms of A, in the generic case (q not a root of unity). More specifically, every such P is the kernel of a map of the form A −→ A ⊗ A −→ A ⊗ A −→ (A/P)⊗ (A/P) where A → A ⊗ A is the com...

Let H be a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. If H is not semisimple and dim(H) = 2n for some odd integer n, then H or H * is not unimodular. Using this result, we prove that if dim(H) = 2p for some odd prime p, then H is semisimple. This completes the classification of Hopf algebras of dimension 2p. In recent years, there has been some progr...

Title of thesis: CLASSIFICATION OF PRIME IDEALS IN INTEGRAL GROUP ALGEBRAS OF FINITE ABELIAN GROUPS Heather Mallie McDonough, Master of Arts, 2005 Thesis directed by: Professor William Adams Department of Mathematics Let Z[G] be the integral group algebra of the group G. In this thesis, we consider the problem of determining all prime ideals of Z[G] where G is both finite and abelian. Because o...

Let G be a finite group and p a prime number. The Plesken Lie algebra is a subalgebra of the complex group algebra C[G] and admits a directsum decomposition into simple Lie algebras. We describe finite-field versions of the Plesken Lie algebra via traditional and computational methods. The computations motivate our conjectures on the general structure of the modular Plesken Lie algebra.

Let Z denote the simple limit of prime dimension drop algebras that has a unique tracial state (cf. Jiang and Su [11]). Let A 6= 0 be a unital C∗-algebra with A ∼= A ⊗ Z. Then the homotopy groups of the group U(A) of unitaries in A are stable invariants, namely, πi(U(A)) ∼= Ki−1(A) for all integer i ≥ 0. Furthermore, A has cancellation for full projections, and satisfies the comparability quest...

let $mathcal {a} $ and $mathcal {b} $ be c$^*$-algebras. assume that $mathcal {a}$ is of real rank zero and unital with unit $i$ and $k>0$ is a real number. it is shown that if $phi:mathcal{a} tomathcal{b}$ is an additive map preserving $|cdot|^k$ for all normal elements; that is, $phi(|a|^k)=|phi(a)|^k $ for all normal elements $ainmathcal a$, $phi(i)$ is a projection, and there exists a posit...

This paper concerns contravariant functors from the category of rings to the category of sets whose restriction to the full subcategory of commutative rings is isomorphic to the prime spectrum functor Spec. The main result reveals a common characteristic of these functors: every such functor assigns the empty set to Mn(C) for n ≥ 3. The proof relies, in part, on the Kochen-Specker Theorem of qu...

A C *-algebra A is called an ideal C * -algebra (or equally a dual algebra) if it is an ideal in its bidual A**. M.C.F. Berglund proved that subalgebras and quotients of ideal C*-algebras are also ideal C*-algebras, that a commutative C *-algebra A is an ideal C *-algebra if and only if it is isomorphicto C (Q) for some discrete space ?. We investigate ideal J*-algebras and show that the a...