Associative algebra

In mathematics, an associative algebra A is an algebraic structure with compatible operations of addition, multiplication (assumed to be associative), and a scalar multiplication by elements in some field K. The addition and multiplication operations together give A the structure of a ring; the addition and scalar multiplication operations together give A the structure of a vector space over K. In this article we will also use the term [[algebra over a field|K-algebra]] to mean an associative algebra over the field K. A standard first example of a K-algebra is a ring of square matrices over a field K, with the usual matrix multiplication. A commutative algebra is an associative algebra that has a commutative multiplication, or, equivalently, an associative algebra that is also a commutative ring. In this article associative algebras are assumed to have a multiplicative identity, denoted 1; they are sometimes called unital associative algebras for clarification. In some areas of math

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Isomorphism Problems of Noncommutative Deformations of Type D Kleinian Singularities

We construct all possible noncommutative deformations of a Kleinian singularity C-2/Gamma of type D-n in terms of generators and relations, and solve the isomorphism problem for the associative algebras thus constructed. We prove that (in our parametrization) all isomorphisms arise from the action of the normalizer N-SL(2)(Gamma) on C/Gamma. We deduce that the moduli space of isomorphism classes of noncommutative deformations in type D-n is isomorphic to a vector space of dimension n.

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The theory of persistence, which arises from topological data analysis, has been intensively studied in the one-parameter case both theoretically and in its applications. However, its extension to the multi-parameter case raises numerous difficulties, where it has been proven that no barcode-like decomposition exists. To tackle this problem, algebraic invariants have been proposed to summarize multi-parameter persistence modules, adapting classical ideas from commutative algebra and algebraic geometry to this context. Nevertheless, the crucial question of their stability has raised little attention so far, and many of the proposed invariants do not satisfy a naive form of stability. In this paper, we equip the homotopy and the derived category of multi-parameter persistence modules with an appropriate interleaving distance. We prove that resolution functors are always isometric with respect to this distance. As an application, this explains why the graded-Betti numbers of a persistence module do not satisfy a naive form of stability. This opens the door to performing homological algebra operations while keeping track of stability. We believe this approach can lead to the definition of new stable invariants for multi-parameter persistence, and to new computable lower bounds for the interleaving distance (which has been recently shown to be NP-hard to compute in [2]).

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