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Useful Theorems on Commutative Non-associative Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Nora Losey
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University of Manitoba
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Recently J. M. Osborn has investigated the structure of a simple commutative non-associative algebra with unity element satisfying a polynomial identity, (4), (5) and (6). From his work it seems likely that if such an algebra is of degree three or more it is necessarily power-associative. In (4) he establishes a hierarchy of identities with the property that each identity is satisfied by an algebra satisfying no preceding identity. Following (5), (6),the next identity to consider is

where a, c and h are elements of the ground field.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1967

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