有限矩阵代数中多重线性多项式的像包含迹零矩阵

On Multilinear Polynomials In Four Variables Evaluated On Matrices

Let $K$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$ and let $M_n(K)$, $n \ge 3$, be the matrix ring over $K$. We will show that the image of any multilinear polynomial in four variables evaluated on $M_n(K)$ contains all matrices of trace $0$.

Images of multilinear graded polynomials on upper triangular matrix algebras

In this paper we study the images of multilinear graded polynomials on the graded algebra of upper triangular matrices UT_n. For positive integers q \leq n, we classify these images on UT_n endowed with a particular elementary Z_q-grading. As a consequence, we obtain the images of multilinear graded polynomials on UT_n with the natural Z_n-grading. We apply this classification in order to give a new condition for a multilinear polynomial in terms of graded identities so that to obtain the traceless matrices in its image on the full matrix algebra. We also describe the images of multilinear pol…

The images of multilinear non-associative polynomials evaluated on a rock-paper-scissors algebra with unit over an arbitrary field

Let ${\mathbb F}$ be an arbitrary field. We consider a commutative, non-associative, $4$-dimensional algebra ${\mathfrak M}$ of the rock, the paper and the scissors with unit over ${\mathbb F}$ and we prove that the image over ${\mathfrak M}$ of every non-associative multilinear polynomial over ${\mathbb F}$ is a vector space. The same question we consider for two subalgebras: an algebra of the rock, the paper and the scissors without unit, and an algebra of trace zero elements with zero scalar part. Moreover in this paper we consider the questions of possible evaluations of homogeneous polyno…

Polynomials of small degree evaluated on matrices

A celebrated theorem of Shoda states that over any field K (of characteristic 0), every matrix with trace 0 can be expressed as a commutator AB-BA, or, equivalently, that the set of values of the polynomial f(x,y)=xy-yx on the nxn-matrix K-algebra contains all matrices with trace 0. We generalize Shoda's theorem by showing that every nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree at most 3, with coefficients in K, has this property. We further conjecture that this holds for every nonzero multilinear polynomial with coefficients in K of degree m, provided that m is at most n+1.

通过分次结构研究Lvov-Kaplansky猜想的新方法

A new approach to the Lvov-Kaplansky conjecture through gradings

本文利用矩阵代数的分次结构，给出多重线性多项式为中心多项式或迹零多项式的充要条件，并由此得到Lvov-Kaplansky猜想的一个等价形式。

A Not-so-Characteristic Equation: the Art of Linear Algebra

Can the cross product be generalized? Why are the trace and determinant so important in matrix theory? What do all the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial represent? This paper describes a technique for `doodling' equations from linear algebra that offers elegant solutions to all these questions. The doodles, known as trace diagrams, are graphs labeled by matrices which have a correspondence to multilinear functions. This correspondence permits computations in linear algebra to be performed using diagrams. The result is an elegant theory from which standard constructions of linear al…