Brauer group

English

Etymology

Defined by the algebraist Richard Brauer.

Noun

Brauer group (plural Brauer groups)

  1. (mathematics) For a field K, an abelian group whose elements are Morita equivalence classes of central simple algebras over K, with addition given by the tensor product of algebras.
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