Jordan Centers and Martindale-like Covers

In this paper we show that the scalar center of a nondegenerate quadratic Jordan algebra is contained in the scalar center of any of its Martindale-like covers.

(This paper has appeared in J. Algebra 305 (2006), no. 2, 615--628)

J. A. Anquela < anque@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es >

T. Cortés < cortes@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es >

E. García < egarciag@mat.ucm.es >

M. Gómez-Lozano < magomez@agt.cie.uma.es >