Units in Skew Fields
1st Edition
Published in April 2000
Book
Hardback
VIII, 80 pages
978-3-7643-6293-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is devoted to a study of the unit groups of orders in skew fields, finite dimensional and central over the rational field; it thereby belongs to the field of noncommutative arithmetic. Its purpose is a synopsis of results and methods, including full proofs of the most important results. It is addressed to researchers in number theory and arithmetic groups.
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Series
Edition
1., 2000
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 80 p.
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-6293-5 (9783764362935)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-0348-8409-9
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Content
Basic facts; Hey's theorem and consequences; Siegel-Weyl reduction theory; the Tamagawa number and the volume of G (R)/G(Z); the size of T; Margulis' finiteness theorem; a Zariski dense and a free subgroup of T; an example; problems.