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A Characterization of Intrinsic Functions on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. E. Carlson
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
C. G. Cullen
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Let be an associative algebra over the field and let be the group of all automorphisms and anti-automorphisms of which leave elementwise invariant. A function Fwith domain and range contained in is called an intrinsic functionon if (i) for each Ω in and (ii) FZ) = ΩF(Z) for every Z in .

Rinehart (5) has introduced and motivated the study of the class of intrinsic functions on , and has characterized these functions for the cases in which is the algebra of real quaternions, the algebra of n × ncomplex matrices, or the algebra of n× nreal matrices (5; 6). The algebras listed above, along with the algebra of n × nquaternion matrices, constitute the full list of possibilities for the simple direct summands of any semi-simple algebra over or ; see (2).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1969

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