The length function and matrix algebras

By the length of a finite system of generators for a finite-dimensional associative algebra over an arbitrary field we mean the least positive integer k such that words of length not exceeding k span this algebra (as a vector space). The maximum length for the systems of generators of an algebra is referred to as the length of the algebra. In the present paper, we study the main ring-theoretical properties of the length function: the behavior of the length under unity adjunction, direct sum of algebras, passage to subalgebras and homomorphic images. We give an upper bound for the length of the algebra as a function of the nilpotency index of its Jacobson radical and the length of the quotient algebra. We also provide examples of length computation for certain algebras, in particular, for the following classical matrix subalgebras: the algebra of upper triangular matrices, the algebra of diagonal matrices, the Schur algebra, Courter’s algebra, and for the classes of local and commutative algebras.     

Cocycle deformations and Galois objects of semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension 16

Abstract

In this article, we determine cocycle deformations and Galois objects of non-commutative and non-cocommutative semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension 16. We show that these Hopf algebras are pairwise twist inequivalent mainly by calculating their higher Frobenius-Schur indicators, and that except three Hopf algebras which are cocycle deformations of dual group algebras, none of them admit non-trivial cocycle deformations.     

Cellular Structure of q-Brauer Algebras

Let R be a commutative noetherian domain. The q-Brauer algebras over R are shown to be cellular algebras in the sense of Graham and Lehrer. In particular, they are iterated inflations of Hecke algebras of type A. When R is a field of arbitrary characteristic, we determine for which parameters the q-Brauer algebras are quasi-hereditary. Then, using the general theory of cellular algebras we parametrize all irreducible representations of q-Brauer algebras.     

Three-dimensional zeropotent algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic two

Abstract

We previously classified three-dimensional zeropotent algebras over an algebraically closed field of any characteristic except for two. The exceptional case of characteristic two is special because some of the previous transformation matrices to verify isomorphism are unavailable. In this paper, we give new transformation matrices peculiar to characteristic two and then achieve classification in the exceptional case. We thus accomplish a classification of three-dimensional zeropotent algebras over an algebraically closed field of any characteristic.     

Intermediate Growth of Solvable Lie Superalgebras

Finitely generated solvable Lie algebras have an intermediate growth between polynomial and exponential. Recently the second author suggested the scale to measure such an intermediate growth of Lie algebras. The growth was specified for solvable Lie algebras F(A ^q , k) with a finite number of generators k, and which are free with respect to a fixed solubility length q. Later, an application of generating functions allowed us to obtain more precise asymptotic. These results were obtained in the generality of polynilpotent Lie algebras. Now we consider the case of Lie superalgebras; we announce that main results and describe the methods. Our goal is to compute the growth for F(A ^q , m, k), the free solvable Lie superalgebra of length q with m even and k odd generators. The proof is based upon a precise formula of the generating function for this algebra obtained earlier. The result is obtained in the generality of free polynilpotent Lie superalgebras. __________ Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 14, Algebra, 2004.     

On structures of modular adjacency algebras of Johnson schemes

In this paper, we consider algebras over a field of characteristic p, which are generated by adjacency algebras of Johnson schemes. If the algebra is semisimple, the structure is the same as that of the well-known Bose-Mesner algebras. We determine the structure of the algebra when it is not semisimple.     

Two generator subalgebras of Lie algebras

In [Thompson, J., 1968, Non-solvable finite groups all of whose local subgroups are solvable. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 74, 383–437.], Thompson showed that a finite group G is solvable if and only if every two-generated subgroup is solvable (Corollary 2, p. 388). Recently, Grunevald et al. [Grunewald et al., 2000, Two-variable identities in groups and Lie algebras. Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk POMI, 272, 161–176; 2003. Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York), 116, 2972–2981.] have shown that the analogue holds for finite-dimensional Lie algebras over infinite fields of characteristic greater than 5. It is a natural question to ask to what extent the two-generated subalgebras determine the structure of the algebra. It is to this question that this article is addressed. Here, we consider the classes of strongly-solvable and of supersolvable Lie algebras, and the property of triangulability.     

SECOND COHOMOLOGY GROUP OF GENERALIZED WITT TYPE LIE ALGEBRAS AND CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS

ABSTRACT

We determine the second cohomology groups of Lie algebras of generalized Witt type which are some Lie algebras defined by Passman and Jordan, more general than those defined by Dokovic and Zhao, and slightly more general than those defined by Xu. Among all the 2-cocycles, there is a special one we think interesting. Using this 2-cocycle, we define the so-called Virasoro-like algebras. Then we give a class of their representations.     

On classical artinian localizations

ABSTRACT

We present some results about Lie algebras, which can be written as the sum of two subalgebras in two cases: where both subalgebras are simple or both are nilpotent. In the first case we suggest new examples of simple Lie algebras admitting decomposition into the sum of simple subalgebras and give explicit realizations where the existence of such decompositions was established earlier. We single out cases where such decomposition is not possible. We also construct examples of solvable Lie algebras, which are the sums of two nilpotent subalgebras, and the derived length of the sum is greater than the sum of the nilpotent indexes of the summands.     

The grothendieck group of the category of modules of finite projective dimension over certain weakly triangular algebras

In this paper we study the category of finitely generated modules of finite projective dimension over a class of weakly triangular algebras, which includes the algebras whose idempotent ideals have finite projective dimension. In particular, we prove that the relations given by the (relative) almost split sequences generate the group of all relations for the Grothendieck group of P ^<∞(Λ) if and only if P ^<∞(Λ) is of finite type. A similar statement is known to hold for the category of all finitely generated modules over an artin algebra, and was proven by C.M.Butler and M. Auslander ( [B] and [A]).     

The irreducible characters of the alternating Hecke algebras

This paper computes the irreducible characters of the alternating Hecke algebras, which are deformations of the group algebras of the alternating groups. More precisely, we compute the values of the irreducible characters of the semisimple alternating Hecke algebras on a set of elements indexed by minimal length conjugacy class representatives and we show that these character values determine the irreducible characters completely. As an application, we determine a splitting field for the alternating Hecke algebras in the semisimple case.     

Su alcune algebre caratteristiche nella teoria dei getti

Summary N. Teleman’s definition of ? characteristic algebra of a Lie algebra extension ? is applied to two classical exact sequences of the theory of the jets, which are of interest in the theory of higher order connections. In the first case, the resulting characteristic algebras are shown to coincide with the ordinary characteristic algebras of the bundles (with connected structure group) of higher order frames on a manifold, and not to depend on the order of the jets. For the second case, the characteristic algebras are proved to be alwaysℝ.

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Entrata in Redazione il 17 marzo 1976.

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Lavoro eseguito nell’ambito del Gruppo di Ricerca del C.N.R. ? Strutture algebriche e geometriche ?.     

Solvable Leibniz algebras with quasi-filiform Lie algebras of maximum length nilradicals

Abstract

In this article, solvable Leibniz algebras, whose nilradical is quasi-filiform Lie algebra of maximum length, are classified. The rigidity of such Leibniz algebras with two-dimensional complemented space to the nilradical is proved.

Communicated by K. C. Misra     

Examples of Sweedler Cohomology in Positive Characteristic

There have been few examples of computations of Sweedler cohomology, or its generalization in low degrees known as lazy cohomology, for Hopf algebras of positive characteristic. In this paper we first provide a detailed calculation of the Sweedler cohomology of the algebra of functions on (?/2) ^r , in all degrees, over a field of characteristic 2. Here the result is strikingly different from the characteristic zero analog.

Then we show that there is a variant in characteristic p of the result obtained by Kassel and the author in characteristic zero, which provides a near-complete calculation of the second lazy cohomology group in the case of function algebras over a finite group; in positive characteristic, the statement is, rather surprisingly, simpler.     

Vertex representation of quantum N-toroidal algebra for type F4

Abstract

Recently Gao-Jing-Xia-Zhang defined the structures of quantum N-toroidal algebras uniformally, which are a kind of natural generalizations of the classical quantum toroidal algebras, just like the relation between 2-toroidal Lie algebras and N-toroidal Lie algebras. Based on this work, we construct a level-one vertex representation of quantum N-toroidal algebra for type F₄. In particular, we can also obtain a level-one vertex representation of quantum toroidal algebra for type F₄ as our special cases.     

Composition algebras and outer automorphisms of algebraic groups via triality

In this note, we establish an equivalence of categories between the category of all eight-dimensional composition algebras with any given quadratic form n over a field k of characteristic not two, and a category arising from an action of the projective similarity group of n on certain pairs of automorphisms of the group scheme PGO⁺(n) defined over k. This extends results recently obtained in the same direction for symmetric composition algebras. We also derive known results on composition algebras from our equivalence.     

Finitely generated varieties of distributive effect algebras

Lattice-ordered effect algebras generalize both MV-algebras and orthomodular lattices. In this paper, finitely generated varieties of distributive lattice effect algebras are axiomatized, and for any positive integer n, the free n-generator algebras in these varieties are described.     

A SIMPLE EXAMPLE OF A NON-FINITELY BASED SYSTEM OF POLYNOMIAL IDENTITIES

ABSTRACT

A system of polynomial identities is called finitely based if it is equivalent to some finite system of polynomial identities. Every system of polynomial identities in associative algebras over a field of characteristic 0 is finitely based: this is a celebrated result of Kemer. The first non-finitely based systems of polynomial identities in associative algebras over a field of a prime characteristic have been constructed recently by Belov, Grishin and Shchigolev. These systems of identities are relatively complicated. In the present paper we construct a simpler example of such a system and give a simple self-contained proof of the fact that the system is non-finitely based.     

The ramification of centres: Lie algebras in positive characteristic and quantised enveloping algebras

Let H be a Hopf algebra over the field k which is a finite module over a central affine sub-Hopf algebra R. Examples include enveloping algebras of finite dimensional k-Lie algebras in positive characteristic and quantised enveloping algebras and quantised function algebras at roots of unity. The ramification behaviour of the maximal ideals of Z(H) with respect to the subalgebra R is studied, and the conclusions are then applied to the cases of classical and quantised enveloping algebras. In the case of for semisimple a conjecture of Humphreys [28] on the block structure of is confirmed. In the case of for semisimple and an odd root of unity we obtain a quantum analogue of a result of Mirković and Rumynin, [35], and we fully describe the factor algebras lying over the regular sheet, [9]. The blocks of are determined, and a necessary condition (which may also be sufficient) for a baby Verma -module to be simple is obtained. Received: 24 June 1999; in final form: 30 March 2000 / Published online: 17 May 2001