Graded-simple algebras and cocycle twisted loop algebras

Abstract

The loop algebra construction by Allison, Berman, Faulkner, and Pianzola, describes graded-central-simple algebras with split centroid in terms of central simple algebras graded by a quotient of the original grading group. Here the restriction on the centroid is removed, at the expense of allowing some deformations (cocycle twists) of the loop algebras.

12 pages. To appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc