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On Lower Central Series Quotients of Finitely Generated Algebras over $\mathbb{Z}$

Rings and Algebras 2018-05-21 v2

Abstract

Let AA be an associative unital algebra, BkB_k its successive quotients of lower central series and NkN_k the successive quotients of ideals generated by lower central series. The geometric and algebraic aspects of BkB_k and NkN_k have been of great interest since the pioneering work of \cite{feigin2007}. In this paper, we will concentrate on the case where AA is a noncommutative polynomial algebra over Z\mathbb{Z} modulo a single homogeneous relation. Both the torsion part and the free part of BkB_k and NkN_k are explored. Many examples are demonstrated in detail, and several general theorems are proved. Finally we end up with an appendix about the torsion subgroups of Nk(An(Z))N_k(A_n(\mathbb{Z})) and some open problems.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1237,
  title  = {On Lower Central Series Quotients of Finitely Generated Algebras over $\mathbb{Z}$},
  author = {Katherine Cordwell and Teng Fei and Kathleen Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1237},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages. Updates in v2: minor typos corrected, new references added