On the structure of skew groupoid rings which are Azumaya

In this paper we present an intrinsic description of the structure of an Azumaya skew groupoid ring, having its center contained in the respective ground ring, in terms of suitable central Galois algebras and commutative Galois extensions.

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fulltext Algebra and Discrete Mathematics RESEARCH ARTICLE Volume 16 (2013). Number 1. pp. 71 – 80 © Journal “Algebra and Discrete Mathematics” On the structure of skew groupoid rings which are Azumaya Daiana Flôres, Antonio Paques Communicated by V. V. Kirichenko Abstract. In this paper we present an intrinsic description of the structure of an Azumaya skew groupoid ring, having its center contained in the respective ground ring, in terms of suitable central Galois algebras and commutative Galois extensions. 1. Introduction Groupoids are usually presented as small categories whose morphisms are invertible. The notion of a groupoid action that we use in this paper arose from the notion of a partial groupoid action [3], which is a natural extension of the notion of a partial group action [5]. First, partial ordered groupoid actions on sets were introduced in the literature, as ordered premorphisms, by N. Gilbert [8]. After, partial ordered groupoid actions on rings were considered by D. Bagio and the authors [2] as a generalization of partial group actions, as introduced by M. Dokuchaev and R. Exel in [5]. And in [3] this notion was extended to the general context of groupoids. Accordingly [3], an action of a groupoid G on a K-algebra R is a pair β = ({Eg}g∈G, {βg}g∈G), where for each g ∈ G, Eg = Er(g) is an ideal of R and βg : Eg−1 → Eg is an isomorphism of K-algebras satisfying some suitable conditions of compatibility (see the subsection 2.3). 2010 MSC: 16H05, 18B40, 20L99. Key words and phrases: groupoid action, skew groupoid ring, Azumaya ring, Galois algebra. 72 On the structure of skew groupoid rings The notion of groupoid action given by Caenepeel and De Groot in [4] is equivalent to the above one in the case that the set G0 of all identities of G is finite, each ideal Ee (e ∈ G0) is unital and R = ⊕ e∈G0 Ee, [7, Proposition 2.2]. This is the groupoid action we will deal with throughout all this paper. Given such an action β of G on R, we can consider the skew groupoid ring A = R ⋆β G, similarly to the construction given in [2], which is an associative and unital K-algebra. Our aim is to present an intrinsic structural description of A in the case that G is finite, A is Azumaya and its center is contained in R (see Theorem 3.3). This paper is organized as follows. In the next section we give pre- liminaries about groupoids, groupoid actions, skew groupoid rings, and separability, Hirata-separability, Galois, and Azumaya properties. In that section we will be concerned only with the results strictly necessary to construct the appropriate conditions to prove our main theorem, whose proof we set in the section 3. Throughout, unless otherwise specified, rings and algebras are asso- ciative and unital. 2. Definitions and basic results 2.1. Groupoids The axiomatic version of groupoid that we adopt in this paper was taken from [13]. A groupoid is a non-empty set G equipped with a partially defined binary operation, that we will denote by concatenation, for which the usual axioms of a group hold whenever they make sense, that is: (i) For every g, h, l ∈ G, g(hl) exists if and only if (gh)l exists and in this case they are equal. (ii) For every g, h, l ∈ G, g(hl) exists if and only if gh and hl exist. (iii) For each g ∈ G there exist (unique) elements d(g), r(g) ∈ G such that gd(g) and r(g)g exist and gd(g) = g = r(g)g. (iv) For each g ∈ G there exists an element g−1 ∈ G such that d(g) = g−1g and r(g) = gg−1. We will denote by G2 the subset of the pairs (g, h) ∈ G × G such that the element gh exists. D. Flôres, A. Paques 73 An element e ∈ G is called an identity of G if e = d(g) = r(g−1), for some g ∈ G. In this case e is called the domain identity of g and the range identity of g−1. We will denote by G0 the set of all identities of G and we will denote by Ge the set of all g ∈ G such that d(g) = r(g) = e. Clearly, Ge is a group, called the isotropy (or principal) group associated to e. The assertions listed in the following lemma are straightforward from the above definition. Such assertions will be freely used along this paper. Lemma 2.1. Let G be a groupoid. Then, (i) for every g ∈ G, the element g−1 is unique satisfying g−1g = d(g) and gg−1 = r(g), (ii) for every g ∈ G, d(g−1) = r(g) and r(g−1) = d(g), (iii) for every g ∈ G, (g−1)−1 = g, (iv) for every g, h ∈ G, (g, h) ∈ G2 if and only if d(g) = r(h), (v) for every g, h ∈ G, (h−1, g−1) ∈ G2 if and only if (g, h) ∈ G2 and, in this case, (gh)−1 = h−1g−1, (vi) for every (g, h) ∈ G2, d(gh) = d(h) and r(gh) = r(g), (vii) for every e ∈ G0, d(e) = r(e) = e and e−1 = e, (viii) for every (g, h) ∈ G2, gh ∈ G0 if and only if g = h−1, (ix) for every g, h ∈ G, there exists l ∈ G such that g = hl if and only if r(g) = r(h), (x) for every g, h ∈ G, there exists l ∈ G such that g = lh if and only if d(g) = d(h). 2.2. Groupoid actions and skew groupoid rings Let G be a groupoid and R an algebra over a commutative ring K. Following [3], an action of G on R is a pair β = ({Eg}g∈G, {βg}g∈G), where for each g ∈ G, Eg = Er(g) is an ideal of R, βg : Eg−1 → Eg is an isomorphism of K-algebras (not necessarily unital), and the following conditions hold: (i) βe is the identity map IEe of Ee, for all e ∈ G0, (ii) βgβh(r) = βgh(r), for all (g, h) ∈ G2 and r ∈ Eh−1 = E(gh)−1 . 74 On the structure of skew groupoid rings In particular, β induces an action of the group Ge on Ee, for every e ∈ G0. Accordingly [2, Section 3], the skew groupoid ring R⋆β G corresponding to β is defined as the direct sum R ⋆β G = ⊕ g∈G Egδg in which the δg’s are symbols, with the usual addition, and multiplication determined by the rule (xδg)(yδh) = { xβg(y)δgh if (g, h) ∈ G2 0 otherwise, for all g, h ∈ G, x ∈ Eg and y ∈ Eh. This multiplication is well defined. Indeed, if (g, h) ∈ G2 then d(g) = r(h) (see Lemma 2.1(iv)). So, Eg−1 = Er(g−1) = Ed(g) = Er(h) = Eh, βg(y) makes sense, and xβg(y) ∈ Eg = Er(g) (⋆) = Er(gh) = Egh, where the equality (⋆) is ensured by Lemma 2.1(vi). By a routine calculation one easily sees that A = R ⋆β G is associative, and by [2, Proposition 3.3] it is unital if G0 is finite and Ee is unital, for all e ∈ G0. In this case, the identity element of A is 1A = ∑ e∈G0 1eδe, where 1e denotes the identity element of Ee, for all e ∈ G0. 2.3. Invariants, Galois extensions and Galois algebras Let R, G and β as in the preceding subsection. For our purposes we will assume hereafter that G is finite, R = ⊕ e∈G0 Ee and every ideal Eg is unital, with its identity element denoted by 1g (in particular, each 1g is a central idempotent of R). We will denote by Rβ the subalgebra of the invariant elements of R under the action β, that is, Rβ = {r ∈ R | βg(r1g−1) = r1g, for all g ∈ G}. For any non-empty subset X of R, any subring Y of R containing X and any (Y, Y )-bimodule V we will denote by CV (X) the centralizer of X in V , that is, the set of all v ∈ V such that xv = vx for all x ∈ X. If, in particular, X = Y = V = R, then CV (X) is the center of R and we will denote it simply C(R). A non-empty subset X of R is called β-invariant if βg(Eg−1 ∩ X) = Eg ∩ X, for every g ∈ G. D. Flôres, A. Paques 75 In particular, C(R) and CR(Rβ) are β-invariant. Indeed, if r ∈ Eg−1 ∩ C(R), then βg(r)x = βg(r)1gx = βg(rβg−1(x1g)) = = βg(βg−1(x1g)r) = x1gβg(r) = xβg(r), for all x ∈ R, and so βg(r) ∈ Eg ∩ C(R), for all g ∈ G. Hence, βg(Eg−1 ∩ C(R)) = Eg ∩ C(R). By similar arguments one also gets βg(Eg−1 ∩ CR(Rβ)) = Eg ∩ CR(Rβ). Moreover, since 1g ∈ C(R) ⊆ CR(Rβ), β induces by restriction an action on X ′ = CR(X), with X = R or Rβ, given by the pair β|X′ = ({E′ g = X ′1g}g∈G, {βg|E′ g−1 }g∈G). Notice that E′ g = E′ r(g), for all g ∈ G, and X ′ = ⊕ e∈G0 E′ e. We say that R is a β-Galois extension (resp., G-Galois extension, if G is a group) of Rβ (resp., RG) if there exist elements xi, yi ∈ R, 1 ≤ i ≤ m, such that ∑ 1≤i≤m xiβg(yi1g−1) = δe,g1e, for all e ∈ G0 and g ∈ G. In particular, in this case, Ee is a Ge-Galois extension of EGe e for every e ∈ G0. The set {xi, yi | 1 ≤ i ≤ n} is called a Galois coordinate system of R over Rβ (resp., RG). We also say that R is a β-Galois algebra (resp., β-central Galois algebra) if R is a β-Galois extension of Rβ and Rβ ⊆ C(R) (resp., Rβ = C(R)). In the particular case that G is a group, we replace “β-" by “G-". Remark 2.2. Observe that Rβ ⊆ ⊕ EGe e . Indeed, any element x ∈ R is of the form x = ∑ e∈G0 xe, with xe ∈ Ee, and x ∈ Rβ if and only if βg(x1g−1) = x1g if and only if βg(xd(g)) = xr(g), for all g ∈ G. In particular, βg(xe) = xe, for all e ∈ G0 and g ∈ Ge. Hence, each xe belongs to EGe e and x ∈ ⊕ e∈G0 EGe e . In general the inclusion Rβ ⊆ ⊕ EGe e is strict, as it is shown in the following example: take G = {g, g−1, r(g), d(g)}, R = Se1 ⊕ Se2 ⊕ Se3 ⊕ Se4, where S is a ring and e1, e2, e3 and e4 are pairwise orthogonal idempotents with sum 1R, Eg = Er(g) = Se1 ⊕ Se2, Eg−1 = Ed(g) = Se3 ⊕ Se4, βd(g) = IEd(g) , βr(g) = IEr(g) , βg(xe3 + ye4) = xe1 + ye2 and βg−1(xe1 + ye2) = xe3 + ye4, para todo x, y ∈ S. It is immediate to check that β = ({El}l∈G, {βl}l∈G) is an action of G on R, Rβ = S(e1 + e3) ⊕ S(e2 + e4), E Gd(g) d(g) = Se3 ⊕ Se4 and E Gr(g) r(g) = Se1 ⊕ Se2. In this example we also notice that Rβ1d(g) = E Gd(g) d(g) and Rβ1r(g) = E Gr(g) r(g) . 76 On the structure of skew groupoid rings But, neither this fact occurs in general, as we see in the next example: take R as above and G = {g1, g2, g}, with G0 = {g1, g2}, g−1 = g and gg = g2. Setting Eg1 = Se1 ⊕ Se4, Eg2 = Se2 ⊕ Se3 = Ed(g) = Er(g) and βg(ae2 +be3) = be2 +ae3, one easily sees that Rβ = Se1 ⊕S(e2 +e3)⊕Se4 and Rβ1g2 = S(e2 + e3) ⊂ Eg2 = E Gg2 g2 . 2.4. Azumaya, Hirata-separable and separable algebras Let S be a subalgebra of R. We say that R is separable over S [11] if R is a direct summand of R ⊗S R as an R-bimodule. In this case, if S ⊆ C(R) (resp., S = C(R)) we also say that R is a separable S-algebra (resp., Azumaya over S or Azumaya algebra or simply Azumaya). We say that R is Hirata-separable over S [9] if R ⊗S R is isomorphic, as an R-bimodule, to a direct summand of a finite direct sum of copies of R. It is well known that every Azumaya algebra is Hirata-separable over its center [14] as well as every Hirata-separable extension is separable [10]. 3. The main results Also in this section, R, G and β are as in the later one. We start with the following theorem, which is a generalization of [1, Theorems 1 and 2] to the setting of groupoid actions, and shows a nice and closed relation among the notions of Azumaya algebra, Galois extension and Hirata-separability. The arguments used in the proof of the mentioned theorems in [1] are practically the same we will use here. Theorem 3.1. The following statements are equivalent: (i) A is Azumaya and C(A) ⊆ R. (ii) A is Hirata-separable over R and R is separable over C(R)β. (iii) R is a β-Galois extension of Rβ and Rβ is Azumaya over C(A). (iv) CR(Rβ) is a β-Galois extension of C(A) and Rβ is Azumaya over C(A). Moreover, in this case, C(A) = C(R)β = C(Rβ). For the proof of this theorem we need the following lema. Lemma 3.2. C(A) ⊆ R if and only if C(A) = C(R)β. D. Flôres, A. Paques 77 Proof. If C(A) ⊆ R, then C(A) ⊆ C(R) and ( ∑ e∈G0 x1eδe)1gδg = 1gδg( ∑ e∈G0 x1eδe), for every x ∈ C(A) and g ∈ G. Since ( ∑ e∈G0 x1eδe)1gδg = (x1r(g)δr(g))(1gδg) = x1gδg and 1gδg( ∑ e∈G0 x1eδe) = (1gδg)(x1d(g)δd(g)) = βg(x1g−1)δg, it follows that βg(x1g−1) = x1g, for every g ∈ G. Therefore x ∈ C(R)β. The converse is straightforward. Proof of Theorem 3.1. (i)⇒(ii) By Lemma 3.2 we have C(A) = C(R)β. It follows from [12, Theorem 1] that A is Hirata-separable over R, since A is a finitely generated projective R-module. In addition, R is a direct summand of A as an R-bimodule. Hence, it follows from [14, Proposition 1.3] that CA(R) is separable over C(A) and CA(CA(R)) = R. Consequently, R is separable over C(A) by [6, Theorem III.4.3]. (ii)⇒(iii) We will proceed by steps. step 1: A is Azumaya and C(A) ⊆ R. Since A is Hirata-separable over R and R is a direct summand of A as an R-bimodule, it follows that CA(R) is separable over C(A) and CA(CA(R)) = R, by [14, Proposition 1.3]. Furthermore, C(A) = C(R)β by Lemma 3.2. On the other hand, by the assumptions and [10, Theorem 2.2] we have that A is separable over R, so over C(R)β too. step 2: E = EndC(R)β (R) is Azumaya over C(R)β . Indeed, A is Azumaya over C(R)β (by step 1) and so a projective finitely generated C(R)β-module, by [6, Theorem III.3.4]. Hence, R also is a projective finitely generated C(R)β-module, as a direct summand of A. Now, the assertion follows by [6, Theorem III.4.1]. step 3: CE(A) = EndA(R) ≃ (Rβ)op as C(R)β-algebras. First of all, we observe that R is a left A-module via the action given by rgδg · r = rgβg(r1g−1), for all g ∈ G, rg ∈ Eg and r ∈ R. Consequently, E is an A-bimodule in a natural way, that is, af(r) = a · f(r) and fa(r) = f(a · r), for all a ∈ A, f ∈ E and r ∈ R. Now, the equality of the assertion is immediate. It is also immediate that R is a ((Rβ)op, A)- bimodule, with (Rβ)op acting on R by the left via the right multiplication, that is, x · r = rx, for all r ∈ R and x ∈ (Rβ)op. The claimed isomorphism of the assertion is given by the map θ : (Rβ)op → EndA(R) defined by θ(x)(r) = x · r, for all x ∈ (Rβ)op and r ∈ R, whose inverse is given by f 7→ f(1R), for all f ∈ EndA(R). Now, we are in condition to prove the statement (iii). 78 On the structure of skew groupoid rings It follows from the assumptions, step 3 and [12, Lemma 1] that R is a generator in the category of the left A-modules. Hence, R is a β-Galois extension of Rβ, as well as A ≃ End(R)Rβ as C(R)β-algebras, by [3, Theorem 3]. Then, A can be seen as a C(R)β-subalgebra of E and, by steps 1 and 2 and [6, Theorem III.4.3], we have that CE(A) is Azumaya over C(R)β = C(A). So, (Rβ)op (and, therefore, also Rβ) is Azumaya over C(R)β by step 3, which also ensure that C(Rβ) = C(R)β . (iii)⇒(i) By [3, Theorem 3] we have that R is a projective finitely generated right Rβ-module, A ≃ End(R)Rβ as C(R)β-algebras. By [6, Theorem III.3.4] we have that Rβ is a projective finitely generated C(A)(= C(Rβ))-module. By Lemma 3.2, C(A) = C(R)β. Therefore, R is a projective finitely generated C(R)β-module. Moreover, R is a gen- erator in the category of the C(R)β-modules. Hence, E = EndC(R)β (R) is Azumaya over C(R)β by [6, Theorem III.4.1], and CE(Rβ) is Azumaya over C(R)β by [6, Theorem III.4.3]. Finally, End(R)Rβ = CE(Rβ). Indeed, it is enough to notice that End(R)Rβ is a subalgebra of E and a Rβ-bimodule via the actions xfy(r) = f(rx)y, for all f ∈ End(R)Rβ , x, y ∈ Rβ and r ∈ R. (iii)⇒(iv) By assumption Rβ is Azumaya over C(A) and it follows from the equivalence (iii)⇔(i) that A is Azumaya. By [6, Theorem III.4.3], CA(Rβ) is Azumaya over C(A). Therefore, A′ = CR(Rβ) ⋆β G is Azumaya and C(A′) = C(A) = C(Rβ) ⊆ CR(Rβ). Then, it follows again from the equivalence (i)⇔(iii) that CR(Rβ) is a β-Galois extension of CR(Rβ)β = C(Rβ) = C(A). (iv)⇒(iii) It is enough to observe that, by assumption, there exist ele- ments xi, yi ∈ CR(Rβ) ⊆ R, 1 ≤ i ≤ m, such that ∑ 1≤i≤m xiβg(yi1g−1) = δe,g1e, for all g ∈ G and e ∈ G0. Theorem 3.3. Assume that A is Azumaya, C(A) ⊆ R, and R′ = CR(Rβ) satisfies R′β1e = (E′ e)Ge, where E′ e = R′1e, for all e ∈ G0. Then, (i) A ≃ Rβ ⊗C(A) (R′ ⋆β G) as C(A)-algebras. (ii) R′ ⋆β G ≃ End(R′)R′β as C(A)-algebras. (iii) R′ = ⊕ e∈G0 E′ e. (iv) for each e ∈ G0 there exist pairwise orthogonal idempotents ve,i ∈ C(E′ e), 1 ≤ i ≤ me, and subgroups Hi of Ge such that – each E′ eve,i is an Hi-central Galois algebra, D. Flôres, A. Paques 79 – E′ e = ⊕ 1≤i≤me E′ eve,i or E′ e = ( ⊕ 1≤i≤me E′ eve,i) ⊕ C(E′ e)ve, with ve = 1e − ∑ 1≤i≤me ve,i, – Ge|C(E′ e)ve ≃ Ge and – C(E′ e)ve = E′ eve is a commutative Galois extension of (E′ eve)Ge . Proof. (i) It follows from Theorem 3.1 and [6, Theorem III.4.3] that A ≃ Rβ ⊗C(A) CR(Rβ) as C(A)-algebras. It is routine to check that CA(Rβ) = R′ ⋆β G. 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