In this paper, we present an isomorphism between the ring of general polynomials over a division algebra D with center F and the group ring of the free monoid with [D : F ] variables over D. Using this isomorphism, we define the characteristic polynomial of any matrix over any division algebra, i.e., a general polynomial with one variable over the algebra whose roots are precisely the left eige...

let d be a division ring with centre k and dim, d< ? a valuation on k and v a noninvariant extension of ? to d. we define the initial ramfication index of v over ?, ?(v/ ?) .let a be a valuation ring of o with maximal ideal m, and v , v ,…, v noninvariant extensions of w to d with valuation rings a , a ,…, a . if b= a , it is shown that the following conditions are equivalent: (i) b is a finite...

Let k be a field. Then Gaussian elimination over k and the Euclidean division algorithm for the univariate polynomial ring k[x] allow us to write any matrix in SLn(k) or SLn(k[x]), n ≥ 2, as a product of elementary matrices. Suslin’s stability theorem states that the same is true for the multivariate polynomial ring SLn(k[x1, . . . , xm]) with n ≥ 3. As Gaussian elimination gives us an algorith...

We characterize asymptotic collective behaviour of rectangular random matrices, the sizes of which tend to infinity at different rates: when embedded in a space of larger square matrices, independent rectangular random matrices are asymtotically free with amalgamation over a subalgebra. Therefore we can define a “rectangular free convolution”, linearized by cumulants and by an analytic integral...

We characterize asymptotic collective behavior of rectangular random matrices, the sizes of which tend to infinity at different rates: when embedded in a space of larger square matrices, independent rectangular random matrices are asymptotically free with amalgamation over a subalgebra. Therefore we can define a “rectangular free convolution”, linearized by cumulants and by an analytic integral...

It is known that strongly nilpotent matrices over a division ring are linearly triangularizable. We describe the structure of such matrices in terms of the strong nilpotency index. We apply our results on quasi-translation x+H such that JH has strong nilpotency index two.