Modular cocharacters for P. I. algebras (Q1178045)

The representation theory of the symmetric group is a powerful tool in the study of the polynomial identities of algebras over a field of characteristic 0. The paper under review is devoted to PI-algebras over fields of positive characteristic \(p\). The main results are for algebras \(R = B/pB\), where \(B\) is a torsion free \(\mathbb{Z}\)-algebra. The authors relate the ordinary cocharacters of the polynomial identities for \(\mathbb{Q} \otimes_ \mathbb{Z} B\) with the modular cocharacters of those for \(R\). They also study torsions of the \(\mathbb{Z}\)-polynomial identities for some algebras and prove that for \(p\) odd the identities of the Grassmann (or exterior) algebra are the same as in characteristic 0.