Estimates in Shirshov height theorem
Abstract
In 1993 E. I. Zelmanov asked the following question in Dniester Notebook: "Suppose that is a 2-generated associative ring with the identity . Is it true, that the nilpotency degree of has exponential growth?" We show that the nilpotency degree of -generated associative algebra with the identity is smaller than , where and is a constant. We give the definitive answer to E. I. Zelmanov by this result. It is the consequence of one fact, which is based on combinatorics of words. Let and be positive integers. Then all the words over alphabet of cardinality which length is greater than are either -divided or contain -th power of subword, where a word is -divided, if it can be represented in the following form such that . The symbol means lexicographical order here. A. I. Shirshov proved that the set of non -divided words over alphabet of cardinality has bounded height over the set consisting of all the words of degree . Original Shirshov's estimation was just recursive, in 1982 double exponent was obtained by A. G. Kolotov and in 1993 A. Ya. Belov obtained exponential estimation. We show, that , where and is a constant. Our proof uses Latyshev idea of Dilworth theorem application.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.7435,
title = {Estimates in Shirshov height theorem},
author = {Mikhail Kharitonov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7435},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
61 pages, In Russian