Noncommutative higher commutators
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Noncommutative higher commutators
zbMATH Open document ID: 1495.16019
author: Münevver Pınar Eroğlu
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(A\) be an algebra. For subspaces \(U\) and \(V\) of \(A\), \([U, V]\) denotes the linear span of \(A\) generated by all \([a, b]\), where \(a\in U\) and \(b\in V\), and \([a, b]=ab-ba\) is the usual commutator (or Lie product). A higher commutator \(H\) of \(A\) with length \(n\) is defined to be \begin{itemize} \item \(A\) for \(n=1\); \item \([A, A]\) for \(n=2\); \item \([U, V]\) for \(n>2\), where \(U\) and \(V\) are higher commutators of \(A\) with, respectively, lengths \(p\) and \(q\) such that \(p+q=n\). \end{itemize} The main purpose of this paper is to characterize higher commutators of \(A\), where \(A\) is a unital algebra over a field of characteristic different from 2. It is shown that if \(H\) is a noncommutative higher commutator of \(A\) and contains the unity, then \(H\) is equal to either \(A\) or \([A, A]\). Consequently, if there exist \(x, y\in A\) such that \(1=[x, y]\), then the only higher commutators of \(A\) are \(A\) and \([A, A]\). It is also proved that if \(L=[U, A]\) is noncommutative and contains the unity, where \(U\) is a Lie ideal of \(A\), then \(L=[A, A]\) and \([A, A]\subseteq U\).
reviewed by: Wu Jing
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16N60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16W10
zbMATH DE Number: 7459369
zbMATH Keywords: Lie structure
zbMATH Keywords: commutator
zbMATH Keywords: higher commutator
zbMATH Keywords: Lie ideal
zbMATH Keywords: noncommutative algebra
zbMATH Keywords: semiprime algebra
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: j.jalgebra.2021.11.034
OpenAlex ID: W4200523234
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2021.11.034
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