Aurel Meyer and Zinovy Reichstein: An upper bound on the essential dimension of a central simple algebra.

aurel@math.ubc.ca, reichst@math.ubc.ca

Submission: 2009, Jul 26

We prove a new upper bound on the essential p-dimension of the projective linear group PGLn.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 16K20, 20C10

Keywords and Phrases: Essential dimension, central simple algebra, projective linear group, G-lattice

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