Footnotes to a paper of Domokos. I.

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Abstract: The paper of Domokos is "Invariants of quivers and wreath products," and as in that paper we use Regev's double centralizer theorem for wreath products to study trace identities and invariant theory. In addition to extending to other algebras and groups, we also compute Poincare series and prove embedding theorems.


Let \(A\) be a finite dimensional semisimple \(F\)-subalgebra of \(M_n(F)\), the algebra of \(n\times n\) matrices over a field \(F\) of characteristic zero. Let \(G\) denote the group of units in the centralizer of \(A\) in \(M_n(F)\). Consider the action of \(G\) on the space \(M_n(F)^k\) of \(k\)-tuples of matrices. Similarly to the well studied notions of polynomial identities and trace identities, the author introduces the notions of \(A\)-identities, pure and mixed \(A\)-trace polynomials, and \(A\)-trace identities. Among other things he shows that the \(G\)-invariant polynomial functions on \(M_n(F)^k\) are all given by \(A\)-trace polynomials, and the \(G\)-equivariant polynomial maps \(M_n(F)^k\to M_n(F)\) are all given by mixed \(A\)-trace polynomials. He provides formulae for the Poincaré series of the corresponding algebras of polynomial invariants and covariants. Moreover, he proves that all pure and mixed \(A\)-trace identities of \(M_n(F)\) are consequences of finitely many (explicitly presented) identities coming from the Cayley-Hamilton identity. Finally, he gives an embedding theorem into \(n\times n\) matrices over a commutative ring for \(A\)-algebras satisfying all \(A\)-trace identities of \(M_n(F)\), where \(A=\mathrm{End}_G(F^n)\) for a linearly reductive subgroup \(G\) of \(GL(F^n)\). The key ingredient of the proofs is \textit{A. Regev}'s double centralizing theorem [J. Algebra 102, 423-443 (1986; Zbl 0601.20012)] concerning the wreath product \(A\sim S_k\) acting on the \(k\)th tensor power of \(F^n\). Most results in the present paper generalize the works of \textit{C. Procesi} [Adv. Math. 19, 306-381 (1976; Zbl 0331.15021)] and the reviewer [Commun. Algebra 26, No. 9, 2807-2819 (1998; Zbl 0916.16009)], dealing with the special cases \(A=F\) and \(A=F\times\cdots\times F\), respectively.











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