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Estimates related to Shirshov height theorem (PhD Thesis)

Combinatorics 2015-11-17 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

In 1993 E. I. Zelmanov asked the following question in Dniester Notebook: ""Suppose that F2,mF_{2,m} is a 22-generated associative ring with the identity xm=0x^m=0. Is it true, that the nilpotency degree of F2,mF_{2,m} has exponential growth?"" We show that the nilpotency degree of ll-generated associative algebra with the identity xd=0x^d=0 is smaller than Ψ(d,d,l)\Psi(d,d,l), where Φ(n,d,l)=l(nd)Clog(nd)\Phi(n,d,l)=l(nd)^{C\log(nd)} and CC 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 ll, nn and dnd\ge n be positive integers. Then all the words over alphabet of cardinality ll which length is greater than Ψ(n,d,l)\Psi(n,d,l) are either nn-divided or contain dd-th power of subword, where a word WW is nn-divided, if it can be represented in the following form W=W0W1WnW=W_0W_1\dots W_n such that WnWn1W1W_n\succ W_{n-1}\succ\cdots\succ W_1. The symbol \succ means lexicographical order here. A. I. Shirshov proved that the set of non nn-divided words over alphabet of cardinality ll has bounded height hh over the set YY consisting of all the words of degree <n<n. 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 h<Φ(n,l)h<\Phi(n,l), where Φ(n,l)=nClognl\Phi(n,l)=n^{C\log n} l and CC is a constant. Our proof uses Latyshev idea of Dilworth theorem application.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04721,
  title  = {Estimates related to Shirshov height theorem (PhD Thesis)},
  author = {Mikhail Kharitonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04721},
  year   = {2015}
}

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107 pages in Russian. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1411.7435