Anticommuting matrices and their application to monocomposition algebras (Q923706)

Let \(k\) be a field with \(\mathrm{char}\;k\neq 2\). The author studies nondegenerate monocomposition commutative \(k\)-superalgebras \(A=A_ 0\oplus A_ 1\) with unity and with the property \(N(A_ 0,A_ 1)=0\), where \(N(x,y)\) is a given symmetric bilinear form in \(A\). It is assumed that restrictions of \(N\) to \(A_ 0\) and \(A_ 1\) are nondegenerate. If \(A^ 2_ 1\subseteq k\cdot 1\), then \(A\) is a central simple algebra. The study of these algebras is reduced to the determination of maximal subspaces \(V\subset \mathrm{Mat}(n,k)\) such that \(x^ 2=0\) for all \(x\in V\). An infinite series of maximal non-equivalent subspaces \(V\) in \(\mathrm{Mat}(n,k)\) with this property is presented.