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Canonical examples of algebraic structures
Please list some examples of common examples of algebraic structures. I was thinking answers of the following form.
"When I read about a [insert structure here], I immediately think of [example]."
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$A^2$ is isomorphic to $A^{(\omega)}$, but not $A$
Is there an abelian group $A$ with $A\not\cong A\oplus A\cong A\oplus A\oplus A\oplus\cdots$ (a direct sum of countably many copies of $A$)?
Edited to add: As no answers are forthcoming, does anyone ...
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Is $\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}[[t]]\cong\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}[[\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}]]$?
Let $\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}[[\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}]] := \varprojlim_{n,m}(\mathbb{Z}/n)[x]/(x^m-1)$ be the complete group algebra of the profinite free group of rank 1. In Corollary 5.9.2 of Ribes-...
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Superfluous definitions
It is well known that the axioms of a ring R with unity 1 imply that the underlying group must be commutative.
For if a and b are elements of R, and writing + for the group operation then applying ...
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Non-isomorphic Heisenberg groups over rings
Suppose $R_1,R_2$ are finite unital commutative rings. Consider Heisenberg groups $H_3(R_1)$ and $H_3(R_2)$ (upper unitriangular marticies $3 \times 3$).
Proposition. If $R_1 \not\cong R_2$ (as ...
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Does "finitely presented" mean "always finitely presented", considered in general
I'm wondering about the question
"If we have a finitely presented __, is it necessarily finitely presented with respect to any finite generating set for it?"
I know this is true for groups and ...
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Can a compact object be a nontrivial self-retract?
Let $\mathcal C$ be a locally finitely-presentable category, and let $X$ be a finitely-presentable object of $\mathcal C$.
Question: Can there exist a nontrivial idempotent on $X$ whose fixed points ...
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Heisenberg-type groups over rings with involution
Hello everyone!
In a paper "Coverings of twisted Chevalley groups over commutative rings" Eiichi Abe intoroduced the following construction:
Let $R$ be a commutative ring and $x\mapsto\overline{x}$ ...
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Extension problem
As I understand, if $0\rightarrow A\rightarrow X\rightarrow B\rightarrow 0$ is a short exact sequence of abelian groups, $\mbox{Ext }_{\mathbb{Z}}^{1}(B,A)$ gives all the isomorphism classes of what ...
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Behavior of invariants under reduction mod p
Let $R$ be a finitely generated $\mathbb{Z}$-algebra with an [edit: linear algebraic] action of $G(\mathbb{Z})$ where $G$ is a split simply-connected semisimple group.
Then for any prime $p$ we have a ...
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Units in group rings
Let $F$ be any field with $p$ elements and $G$ be any finite $p$-group, combining together they form a group ring $FG$. And $V(FG)$ denotes group of units of coefficient-sum equal to 1 in $FG$. We ...
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Intersections of generating sets of subalgebras
Let $A$ be a finitely generated, finitely presented, Noetherian, unital algebra over the complex numbers, which has no zero divisors. We do not assume that $A$ is commutative however.
Moreover, let $...
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nilpotent matrices over polynomial rings
I am looking for an analogue of the Jordan normal form for nilpotent matrices over the
polynomial ring ${\mathbb Z}[x_1, \dots, x_n]$. More precisely, is there a description for the orbits of action ...
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fixed point scheme in caracteristic p
Let X\rightarrow A^{n} a smooth affine scheme over an affine space. Everything is defined over a field k.
Let G a finite group acting on X and suppose that his order is divisible by the caracteristic ...
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A functor on the category of commutative rings, algebras or Banach algebras
Edit: According to the comments of abx and Yemon Choi I revise the question as follows:
Let $G$ be a group and $\mathcal{A_G}$ be the category of $G$-module commutative algebras, that is the ...
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Generators of $SL(n,\mathbb F_2)$? [closed]
Consider the invertible matrices in $\mathbb F_2^{n\times n}$ which are a multiplicative group structure. Is there a finite set of $2k$ (at a $k\in\mathbb Z_{\geq1}$ independent of $n$) generators for ...
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Basic question about power series and complete group algebras
This is a pretty basic question, but I suspect it might be too exotic for math.stackexchange.
Let $\mathbb{Z}_p$ be the $p$-adic integers. For free pro-$p$ group $F_r$ of rank $r$, we can consider ...
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