R. A. Mollin

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Abstract

I. Schur's study of simple algebras around the turn of the century, and subsequent investigations by R. Brauer, E. Witt and others, were later reformulated in terms of what is now called the Schur subgroup of the Brauer group. During the last twenty years this group has generated substantial interest and numerous palatable results have ensued. Among these is the discovery that elements of the Schur group satisfy uniform distribution of Hasse invariants. It is the purpose of this paper to continue an investigation of the latter concept and to highlight certain applications of these results, not only to the Schur group, but also to embeddings of simple algebras and extensions of automorphisms, among others.