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Commutative Non-Associative Algebras and Identities of Degree Four

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. Marshall Osborn
J. Marshall Osborn*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin ; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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The main result of this paper is the following.

Theorem 1. Let A be a simple, commutative, finite-dimensional algebra containing an idempotent over a field of characteristic 0, and let the algebra A' obtained from A by adjoining a unity element satisfy an identity of degree ≦ 4 not implied by commutativity. Then either A is a Jordan algebra or A is two-dimensional over an appropriate field E.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 769 - 794
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

Footnotes

The research for this paper was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant GP-3993, and by the Research Committee of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin from funds supplied by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

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