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Products of several commutators in a Lie nilpotent associative algebra

Rings and Algebras 2018-06-12 v3

Abstract

Let FF be a field of characteristic 2,3\ne 2,3 and let AA be a unital associative FF-algebra. Define a left-normed commutator [a1,a2,,an][a_1, a_2, \dots , a_n] (aiA)(a_i \in A) recursively by [a1,a2]=a1a2a2a1[a_1, a_2] = a_1 a_2 - a_2 a_1, [a1,,an1,an]=[[a1,,an1],an][a_1, \dots , a_{n-1}, a_n] = [[a_1, \dots , a_{n-1}], a_n] (n3)(n \ge 3). For n2n \ge 2, let T(n)(A)T^{(n)} (A) be the two-sided ideal in AA generated by all commutators [a1,a2,,an][a_1, a_2, \dots , a_n] (aiA)a_i \in A ). Define T(1)(A)=AT^{(1)} (A) = A. Let k,k, \ell be integers such that k>0k > 0, 0k0 \le \ell \le k. Let m1,,mkm_1, \dots , m_k be positive integers such that \ell of them are odd and kk - \ell of them are even. Let Nk=i=1kmi2k++2N_{k \ell} = \sum_{i=1}^k m_i -2k + \ell + 2 . The aim of the present note is to show that, for any positive integers m1,,mkm_1, \dots , m_k, in general, T(m1)(A)T(mk)(A)T(Nk+1)(A). T^{(m_1)} (A) \dots T^{(m_k)} (A) \nsubseteq T^{(N_{k \ell} +1)} (A). It is known that if <k\ell < k (that is, if at least one of mim_i is even) then, for each AA, \begin{equation*} \label{evenabstr} T^{(m_1)} (A) \dots T^{(m_k)} (A) \subseteq T^{(N_{k \ell} )} (A) \end{equation*} so our result cannot be improved if <k\ell <k. Let Nk=i=1kmik+1N_k = \sum_{i=1}^k m_i -k+1. Recently Dangovski has proved that if m1,,mkm_1, \dots , m_k are any positive integers then, in general, T(m1)(A)T(mk)(A)T(Nk+1)(A). T^{(m_1)} (A) \dots T^{(m_k)} (A) \nsubseteq T^{(N_k+1)} (A) . Since Nk=Nk(k1) N_{k \ell} = N_k - (k - \ell -1), Dangovski's result is stronger than ours if =k\ell = k and is weaker than ours if k2\ell \le k-2; if =k1\ell = k-1 then Nk=Nk(k1)N_k = N_{k (k-1)} so both results coincide. It is known that if =k\ell = k (that is, if all mim_i are odd) then, for each AA, \begin{equation*} \label{alloddabstr} T^{(m_1)} (A) \dots T^{(m_k)} (A) \subseteq T^{(N_k)} (A) \end{equation*} so in this case Dangovski's result cannot be improved.

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@article{arxiv.1610.03136,
  title  = {Products of several commutators in a Lie nilpotent associative algebra},
  author = {Galina Deryabina and Alexei Krasilnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03136},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages; v.2: abstract improved, typos fixed; v.3: change of the title, minor changes in notation