Algebras generated by locally nilpotent finitary skew linear groups (Q686047)

For a division ring \(D\) and a left vector space \(V\) over \(D\) the finitary \(D\)-automorphisms of \(V\) are those which differ from the identity by a finite rank endomorphism. The author is concerned with a group \(G\) of these automorphisms and the algebra which it generates within the endomorphism ring over some central subfield \(F\) of \(D\). A key subgroup of \(G\) is the `local FC-center' [as in \textit{D. S. Passman}'s `The algebraic structure of group rings' (1977; Zbl 0368.16003)] here denoted \(\Lambda(G)\). This reduces to the center of \(G\) if \(G\) is torsion-free and locally nilpotent. Assuming that \(G\) is locally nilpotent and irreducible, the author obtains ring-theoretic information about the algebra generated by \(G\), namely that it is a prime ring and a crossed product algebra over the algebra generated by \(\Lambda(G)\). (The crossed product is the same conclusion as that of the author's [in Mich. Math. J. 37, No. 2, 293-303 (1990; Zbl 0726.20034)].) He also uses this to obtain various group- theoretic information about \(\Lambda(G)\). The notation and definitions are mainly those of infinite groups and group rings.