Peirce decomposition
In ring theory, a Peirce decomposition /ˈpɜːrs/ is a decomposition of an algebra as a sum of eigenspaces of commuting idempotent elements. The Peirce decomposition for associative algebras was introduced by Benjamin Peirce (1870, proposition 41, page 13). A similar but more complicated Peirce decomposition for Jordan algebras was introduced by (Albert 1947).
Peirce decomposition for associative algebras
If e is an idempotent (e2 = e) in an associative algebra A, then the two-sided Peirce decomposition writes A as the direct sum of eAe, eA(1 − e), (1 − e)Ae, and (1 − e)A(1 − e). There are also left and right Peirce decompositions, where the left decomposition writes A as the direct sum of eA and (1 − e)A, and the right one writes A as the direct sum of Ae and A(1 − e).
More generally, if e1, ..., en are mutually orthogonal idempotents with sum 1, then A is the direct sum of the spaces eiAej for 1 ≤ i, j ≤ n.
Blocks
An idempotent of a ring is called central if it commutes with all elements of the ring.
Two idempotents e, f are called orthogonal if ef = fe = 0.
An idempotent is called primitive if it is nonzero and cannot be written as the sum of two orthogonal nonzero idempotents.
An idempotent e is called a block or centrally primitive if it is nonzero and central and cannot be written as the sum of two orthogonal nonzero central idempotents. In this case the ideal eR is also sometimes called a block.
If the identity 1 of a ring R can be written as the sum
- 1 = e1 + ... + en
of orthogonal nonzero centrally primitive idempotents, then these idempotents are unique up to order and are called the blocks or the ring R. In this case the ring R can be written as a direct sum
- R = e1R + ... + enR
of indecomposable rings, which are sometimes also called the blocks of R.
References
- Albert, A. Adrian (1947), "A structure theory for Jordan algebras", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series 48: 546–567, doi:10.2307/1969128, ISSN 0003-486X
- Lam, T. Y. (2001), A first course in noncommutative rings, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 131 (2nd ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-95183-6, https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0387951830
- Peirce, Benjamin (1870), Linear associative algebra, ISBN 978-0-548-94787-6, https://archive.org/details/linearassociati00peirgoog
- Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "P/p071970", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4, https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=P/p071970
External links
- Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Peirce decomposition", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4, https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=p/p071970
- Peirce decomposition on http://www.tricki.org/
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