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We prove that the maximal dimension of a $p$-central subspace of the generic symbol $p$-algebra of prime degree $p$ is $p+1$. We do it by proving the following number theoretic fact: let $\{s_1,\dots,s_{p+1}\}$ be $p+1$ distinct nonzero…

We prove that if the maximal dimension of an anisotropic homogeneous polynomial form of prime degree $p$ over a field $F$ with $\operatorname{char}(F)=p$ is a finite integer $d$ greater than 1 then the symbol length of $p$-algebras of…

Let $p>0$ be a prime, $G$ be a finite $p$-group and $\Bbbk$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p$. Dave Benson has conjectured that if $p=2$ and $V$ is an odd-dimensional indecomposable representation of $G$ then all…

The maximal dimension of commutative subspaces of $M_n(\mathbb{C})$ is known. So is the structure of such a subspace when the maximal dimension is achieved. We consider extensions of these results and ask the following natural questions: If…

Let G be a group and V a finite dimensional representation of G over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p>0. Let $d_n(V)$ be the number of indecomposable summands of $V^{\otimes n}$ of nonzero dimension mod p. It is easy to…

Let V be a vector space of dimension n over a field K and let Symm(V) denote the space of symmetric bilinear forms defined on V x V. Let M be a subspace of Symm(V). We investigate a variety of hypotheses concerning the rank of elements in M…

Let $p\ge 7$ be a prime, and $m\ge 5$ an integer. A natural generalization of Bring's curve valid over any field $\mathbb{K}$ of zero characteristic or positive characteristic $p$, is the algebraic variety $V$ of…

It is shown that for any subspace $V\subseteq \mathbb{F}_p^{n\times\cdots\times n}$ of $d$-tensors, if $\dim(V) \geq tn^{d-1}$, then there is subspace $W\subseteq V$ of dimension at least $t/(dr) - 1$ whose nonzero elements all have…

Let K be a (commutative) field with characteristic not 2, and V be a linear subspace of n by n matrices that have at most two eigenvalues in K (respectively, at most one non-zero eigenvalue in K). We prove that the dimension of V is less…

We prove that the essential dimension of central simple algebras of degree $p^{\ell m}$ and exponent $p^m$ over fields $F$ containing a base-field $k$ of characteristic $p$ is at least $\ell+1$ when $k$ is perfect. We do this by observing…

We prove that the maximal dimension of a Kummer space in the generic tensor product of $n$ cyclic algebras of degree 4 is $4 n+1$.

Let $V$ be a complex vector space with a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form and $\mathbb S$ an irreducible module over the Clifford algebra $Cl(V)$ determined by this form. A supertranslation algebra is a $\mathbb Z$-graded Lie…

A completely entangled subspace of a tensor product of Hilbert spaces is a subspace with no non-trivial product vector. K. R. Parthasarathy determined the maximum dimension possible for such a subspace. Here we present a simple explicit…

Let $M$ be the Doob maximal operator on a filtered measure space and let $v$ be an $A_p$ weight with $1<p<+\infty$. We try proving that \begin{equation}\lVert M f\rVert _{L ^{p}(v) }\leq p^{\prime}[v]^{\frac{1}{p-1}}_{A_p}\lVert f\rVert _{L…

The representation dimension of a finite group G is the smallest positive integer m for which there exists an embedding of G in GL_m(C). In this paper we find the largest value of representation dimensions, as Granges over all groups of…

Let $p$ be a prime integer, $1\leq s\leq r$ integers, $F$ a field of characteristic $p$. Let $\cat{Dec}_{p^r}$ denote the class of the tensor product of $r$ $p$-symbols and $\cat{Alg}_{p^r,p^s}$ denote the class of central simple algebras…

Let $p$ be a prime integer, $k$ be a $p$-closed field of characteristic $\neq p$, $T$ be a torus defined over $k$, $F$ be a finite $p$-group, and $1\to T \to G \to F \to 1$ be an exact sequence of algebraic groups. Extending earlier work of…

Let K be a field of characteristic different from 2 and let V be a vector space of dimension n over K. Let M be a non-zero subspace of symmetric bilinear forms defined on V x V and let r=rank(M) denote the set of different positive integers…

Let $q$ be a power of a prime $p$, and let $V$ be an $n$-dimensional space over the field GF$(q)$. A $Z_p$-valued function $C$ on the set of $k$-dimensional subspaces of $V$ is called a $k$-uniform $Z_p$-null design of strength $t$ if for…

We recall the notion of hyperdeterminant of a multidimensional matrix (tensor). We prove that if we restrict the hyperdeterminant to a skew-symmetric tensor $\wedge^p V\subseteq V^{\otimes p}$ with $p \geq 3$ then it vanishes. The…