IBP-Litp
1994/32:
Rapport de Recherche Litp /
Litp research reports
6 pages - Décembre/December 1994 -
Document en anglais.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: A Commutativity Condition For Skewfields Based On The Permutation Property
Abstract : In 1905, Wedderbun proved the beautiful theorem which states that a finite skewfields is a (finite) field. Answering a question raised by A. de Luca, we give a commutativity condition for infinite skewfields based on the permutation property. This property is defined, in general for semigroupes, as follo pws : let S be a semigroup and n an integer „ 2. S satisfies the permutation property Pn if for any sequences s1, s2,..., sn OE there exists a permutation .s of (1,...,n) with s id. such that s1s2...sn = ss(1)...ss(n).
We shall prove that if the multiplicative part K* of an infinite skewfield K satisfies the property Pn, then K is a field. Since the multiplicative part of every finite skewfield K satisfies the property Pn with n = Card (K*), our result can be viewed as a formal generalization of the Wedderbun's (little) theroem
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