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2. Algebras with trace 21<br />

Example 2.2.4. Consider A to be an order in a finite <strong>di</strong>mensional central<br />

simple algebra D. This means that the center <strong>of</strong> A is a domain, A is torsion<br />

free over Z and, we have D = A⊗Z Q(Z), where Q(Z) is the field <strong>of</strong> fractions<br />

<strong>of</strong> Z. In other words, A embeds naturally in D which is its ring <strong>of</strong> fractions.<br />

If Q(Z) is the algebraic closure <strong>of</strong> Q(Z), we have that A ⊗Z Q(Z) is the full<br />

ring Md(Q(Z). Hence we have on D, and on A, the usual reduced trace map<br />

tr : D → Q(Z). It is well known that tr(A) = Z, if A is a finite Z module,<br />

Z is integrally closed and the characteristic is 0. So under this hypotheses<br />

A is an algebra <strong>of</strong> degree d. For more details cf. [Pro73] or [MR87].<br />

Example 2.2.5. The second example is given by Azumaya algebras (cf<br />

[Art69]). Recall that:<br />

Definition 2.2.6. An algebra R over a commutative ring A is called an<br />

Azumaya algebra <strong>of</strong> degree d over A, if there exists a faithfully flat extension<br />

B <strong>of</strong> A such that R ⊗A B is isomorphic to the algebra Md(B).<br />

In this case it’s easy to show that the or<strong>di</strong>nary trace maps R into A.<br />

Let R be a finitely generated algebra, we want to describe it’s d <strong>di</strong>mensional<br />

representation.<br />

Theorem 2.2.7. Assumes that R ∈ Cd is a finitely generated algebra. Set<br />

T = tr(R).<br />

(i) T is a finitely generated algebra, and R is s finite module over T.<br />

In particular T is the coor<strong>di</strong>nate ring <strong>of</strong> an affine algebraic variety<br />

XT = Maxspec(T).<br />

(ii) The points <strong>of</strong> XT parameterize equivalence classes <strong>of</strong> d-<strong>di</strong>mensional,<br />

trace compatible, and semisimple representations <strong>of</strong> R<br />

(iii) Set Spec(R) equivalences classes <strong>of</strong> irreducible representations <strong>of</strong> R.<br />

The canonical map Spec(R) χ → XT, induced by the central characters,<br />

is surjective and each fiber consists <strong>of</strong> all those irreducible representations<br />

<strong>of</strong> R which are irreducible components <strong>of</strong> the correspon<strong>di</strong>ng semisimple<br />

representation. In particular each irreducible representation <strong>of</strong><br />

R has <strong>di</strong>mension at most d.<br />

(iv) The set<br />

ΩR = {a ∈ Spec(T),such that the correspon<strong>di</strong>ng semisimple<br />

representation is irreducible}<br />

is a Zariski open set. This is exactly the part <strong>of</strong> Spec(T) over which R<br />

is an Azumaya algebra <strong>of</strong> degree d.<br />

Pro<strong>of</strong>. See [DCP93] theorem 4.5, page 48.

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