Trivializing a central simple algebra of degree 4 over the rational numbers

  • Authors:
  • Jana Pílniková

  • Affiliations:
  • RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We give an algorithm for finding an isomorphism of a given central simple algebra of degree 4 over the rationals and the full matrix algebra, provided it exists. It reduces the task to classical problems in number theory, for which there are already known algorithms.