PI-subrings and algebraic elements in enveloping algebras and their fields of fractions (Q1119999)

Let R be a (not necessarily commutative) subfield of the field D constructed by P. M. Cohn to embed the universal enveloping algebra U(L) of an arbitrary Lie algebra L over a commutative field F. Suppose that Z is the centre of R and E, \(R\supset E\supset Z\), is a commutative subfield, finite dimensional over Z. The author shows that if char F\(=0\) then \(E=Z\) and if char F\(=p>0\) then \(\dim_ Z E\) is a power of p. The main tool in the proof of this result is the valuation theory of D started by P. M. Cohn and essentially refined by the author. As corollaries, there are some results on PI-subrings of D and of U(L), on algebraic elements in subrings of D and some others. For instance, a PI-subring S of U(L) is commutative if char F\(=0\) and its PI-degree is a power of p if char F\(=p>0\).