The even-index lower central series product noncontainment conjecture

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Let AA be an associative algebra with lower central series ideals MiM_i.

Even-index product conjecture. If i,j≥2i,j\geq 2 are both even, then in general

Mi⋅Mj⊈Mi+j−1.M_i\cdot M_j\nsubseteq M_{i+j-1}.

This contrasts with the preceding result that MiMj⊂Mi+j−1M_iM_j\subset M_{i+j-1} when at least one of i,ji,j is odd and 16∈R\frac{1}{6}\in R; the statement asserts that the analogous containment generally fails when both indices are even.

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Primary source

Nabilah Abughazalah and Pavel Etingof, “On properties of the lower central series of associative algebras”, arXiv:1508.00943 (2016).

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