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Algebras generated by symmetric idempotents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

David Choate
David Choate
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Department of Mathematics, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125, USA.
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Let F be a field. If A is an F-algebra with involution that is generated (as a space) by symmetric idempotents, then A is a subdirect product of copies of F if and only if every idempotent in A is symmetric.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , June 1984 , pp. 303 - 308
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1984

References

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