\(A\)-codimensions and \(A\)-cocharacters (Q1870921)
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\(A\)-codimensions and \(A\)-cocharacters (English)
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28 September 2003
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Let \(A_n\) be the \(n\)-th alternating group, and consider its group algebra \(FA_n\) as a subalgebra of \(FS_n\) over an algebraically closed field \(F\) of characteristic 0. One identifies \(FS_n\) with the \(F\)-space of all multilinear polynomials in \(x_1,\dots,x_n\) in the free associative algebra over \(F\). In this way one applies the representation theory of \(S_n\) to the study of PI algebras. Such an approach has proved extremely useful and efficient. One may consider the subspace of this space that corresponds to \(A_n\) and try and relate it to polynomial identities of certain important algebras. The authors of the paper under review define the cocharacter and the codimension sequences of a PI algebra with respect to \(A_n\). Then they compare these cocharacters and codimensions with the ordinary ones. Furthermore they compute the \(A_n\)-cocharacter and the \(A_n\)-codimension of \(E\), the infinite dimensional Grassmann algebra.
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alternating group representations
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\(A\)-codimensions
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multilinear polynomials
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PI algebras
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cocharacter sequences
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Grassmann algebras
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