Actions of Lie Superalgebras on Reduced Rings

In this paper, we look at the question of whether the subring of invariants is always nontrivial when a finite dimensional Hopf algebra acts on a reduced ring. Affirmative answers where given by Kharchenko for group algebras and by Beidar and Grzeszczuk for finite dimensional restricted Lie algebras. Our main result is Theorem 13 If R is a graded-reduced ring of characteristic p > 2 acted on by a finitely generated restricted K-Lie superalgebra L, then . We can then use Theorem 13 to prove Corollary 15 Let R be a reduced algebra over a field K of characteristic p > 2 acted on by a finite dimensional restricted K-Lie superalgebra L and let H = u(L)#G, where G is the group of order 2 with the natural action on L. If R ^H satisfies a polynomial identity of degree d, then R satisfies a polynomial identity of degree dN, where N is the dimension of H. Presented by Donald S. Passman.