The images of Lie polynomials evaluated on matrices

DOI10.1080/00927872.2017.1282959zbMATH Open1414.17005arXiv1506.06792OpenAlexW2199320586MaRDI QIDQ4594747FDOQ4594747

Authors: A. Ya Belov, Sergey Malev, Louis Rowen 

Publication date: 24 November 2017

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Kaplansky asked about the possible images of a polynomial $f$ in several noncommuting variables. In this paper we consider the case of $f$ a Lie polynomial. We describe all the possible images of $f$ in $M_2(K)$ and provide an example of $f$ whose image is the set of non-nilpotent trace zero matrices, together with 0. We provide an arithmetic criterion for this case. We also show that the standard polynomial $s_k$ is not a Lie polynomial, for $k>2.$

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06792

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zbMATH Keywords

matricesLie polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(T)-ideals, identities, varieties of associative rings and algebras (16R10) Identities, free Lie (super)algebras (17B01) Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras (17B05) Word problems (aspects of algebraic structures) (08A50)

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