ON FORMANEK'S CENTRAL POLYNOMIALS

  • Lee, Woo (Department of Information and Telecommunication, Gwangju University)
  • Published : 2008.05.31

Abstract

Formanek([2]) proved that $M_n(K)$, the matrix algebra has a nontrivial central polynomial when char K = 0. Also Razmyslov([3]) showed the same result using the essential weak identity. In this article we explicitly compute Formanek's central polynomial for $M_2(\mathbb{C})$ and $M_3(\mathbb{C})$ and classify the coefficients of the central polynomial.

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