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Vol. 51 No. 3–4 (2025)
Serdica Mathematical Journal

Articles

The embedding problem

https://doi.org/10.55630/serdica.2025.51.253-282

Published 23-12-2025

  • Claudio Procesi

Claudio Procesi
Università di Roma La Sapienza

Abstract

We discuss a strategy to find possible counterexamples in the theory of Cayley Hamilton algebras in positive characteristic.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification:

16-11

Keywords

norms, Cayley-Hamilton algebras

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Author Details

Claudio Procesi

Dipartimento di Matematica,
G. Castelnuovo, Università di Roma La Sapienza,
piazzale A. Moro, 00185, Roma, Italia
e-mail: procesi@mat.uniroma1.it

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