Theorem 1 (Jacobson’s density theorem)
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Algebra, VIII, p. 442, Appendix 1. Algebras without Unit Element
Let M be a semisimple left A-pseudomodule. Let be an element of the bicommutant of the -module M. Let be a finite subset of M. Then there exists an element such that for every .
Let B be the bicommutant of the -module M. The A-pseudomodule is semisimple. Let . It follows from Lemma 2 that . The bicommutant of the -module coincides with the homotheties of the B-module (VIII, p. 79, Proposition 2). By Lemma 1, the A-sub-pseudomodule of is therefore a B-submodule of . We therefore have the inclusion . So there exists an such that . The result follows.
Bourbaki sets the proof directly after the statement, and the corpus does not separate them, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.
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