Free structures in division rings

Author(s)

Renato Fehlberg Junior

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC/SB)
• Defense date: 2013-04-12

Examining board members

Eduardo Tengan; Eduardo de Sequeira Esteves; Jairo Zacarias Goncalves; Plamen Emilov Kochloukov; Igor Mencattini

• Advisor: Eduardo Tengan; Daniel Levcovitz

Abstract

Makar-Limanov\'s conjecture states that if a division ring D is finitely generated and infinite dimensional over its center k then D contains a free k-subalgebra of rank 2. In this work, we will investigate the existence of such structures in the division ring of fractions of the skew polynomial ring L[t; \'\\sigma\' ], where t is a variable and \'\\sigma\' is an k-automorphism of L. More specifically, assuming what we called Delta\'s Hipothesis 3.3.1, we prove this result for L / k a field extension, even when L isn\'t finitely generated over k. Finally, we prove Delta\'s Hipothesis and the conjecture when either L is the function field of an abelian variety or the function field of the n-dimensional projective space (AU)