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Constructions of Brauer-Severi Varieties and Norm Hypersurfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ming-Chang Kang
Ming-Chang Kang*
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National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China
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Let k be any field, A a central simple k-algebra of degree m (i.e., dimk A = m2). Several methods of constructing the generic splitting fields for A are proposed and Saltman proves that these methods result in almost the same generic splitting field [8, Theorems 4.2 and 4.4]. In fact, the generic splitting field constructed by Roquette [7] is the function field of the Brauer- Severi variety Vm(A) while the generic splitting field constructed by Heuser and Saltman [4 and 8] is the function field of the norm surface W(A). In this paper, to avoid possible confusion about the dimension, we shall call it the norm hypersurface instead of the norm surface.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1990 , pp. 230 - 238
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1990

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