On Kolchin's theorem
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On Kolchin's theorem
zbMATH Open document ID: 0625.16014
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/33
author: I. N. Herstein
published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/39326
review text: A well-known theorem due to Kolchin states that a semigroup of unipotent matrices over a field can be brought to triangular form over the field. Here it is proved that Kolchin's result follows from a theorem of Wedderburn. The result of Wedderburn asserts that a finite dimensional algebra over a field having a basis of nilpotent elements is nilpotent. It is also proved that if R is a finitely generated P.I. ring and S is a nil subring of R, then S is nilpotent. The proof uses a theorem of A. Braun saying that Jac(R) is nilpotent.
reviewed by: Søren Jøndrup
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16Rxx
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16P10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16N40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 15A21
zbMATH DE Number: 4014932
zbMATH Keywords: semigroup of unipotent matrices
zbMATH Keywords: triangular form
zbMATH Keywords: finite dimensional algebra
zbMATH Keywords: nilpotent elements
zbMATH Keywords: finitely generated P.I. ring
zbMATH Keywords: nil subring
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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