Indices of nilpotency in a PI-ring (Q801000)

An improved bound is given for the index of nilpotency of the ideal generated by \(T^ m\), where T is a nilpotent subset of a PI-ring of degree d and \(m=[d/2].\) It is proved that in any ring, a product in which one element occurs four times, can be expressed in terms of at most twenty-eight cubes. These results are applied to get bounds for the indices of nilpotency of finitely generated nil rings of index 6 or 7.