Polynomial growth and identities of superalgebras and star-algebras. (Q1030701)

In the paper under review the authors study simultaneously the growth behaviour of the codimension sequences of the super polynomial identities of associative superalgebras and *-polynomial identities of algebras with involution over a field \(F\) of characteristic 0, both kinds of algebras being unital. Let \(c_n^\varphi(A)\), \(n=0,1,2,\dots\), be the corresponding codimension sequence of the algebra \(A\), where \(\varphi\) means either super- or *-polynomial identities. It is known, as in the case of ordinary polynomial identities, that the growth of the sequence \(c_n^\varphi(A)\) is either polynomial or exponential. The authors consider the case of polynomial growth. They show that in this case \(c_n^\varphi(A)=qn^k+\mathcal O(n^{k-1})\) for suitable nonnegative integer \(k\) and positive rational \(q\) and \[ {1\over k!}\leq q\leq\sum_{i=0}^k2^{k-i}{(-1)^i\over i!}. \] This is an analog of a result of Regev and the reviewer in the ordinary case. For each \(k\) the authors construct explicit algebras with \(\varphi\)-codimension sequence asymptotically equal to \(qn^k\), where \(q\) is the largest or smallest possible.