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A separable deformation of the quaternion group algebra

Author(s): Nurit Barnea; Yuval Ginosar
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 2675-2681.
MSC (2000): Primary 16S80
Posted: April 2, 2008
MathSciNet review: 2399028
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Abstract: The Donald-Flanigan conjecture asserts that for any finite group $ G$ and any field $ k$, the group algebra $ kG$ can be deformed to a separable algebra. The minimal unsolved instance, namely the quaternion group $ Q_8$ over a field $ k$ of characteristic 2 was considered as a counterexample. We present here a separable deformation of $ kQ_8$. In a sense, the conjecture for any finite group is open again.


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Additional Information:

Nurit Barnea
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel

Yuval Ginosar
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
Email: ginosar@math.haifa.ac.il

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09480-X
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09480-X
Received by editor(s): April 23, 2007
Posted: April 2, 2008
Communicated by: Martin Lorenz
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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