The Centralizer Conjecture for the Weyl algebra over an integral domain

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Let DD be a commutative integral domain of characteristic zero, let Q(D)Q(D) be its field of fractions, and let A1(D)A_1(D) be the first Weyl algebra over DD, generated by xx and ∂\partial with relation [∂,x]=1[\partial,x]=1. For elements u,vu,v, write [u,v]=uv−vu[u,v]=uv-vu, and let A1(D)∗=D∗A_1(D)^*=D^* denote its units.

The Centralizer Conjecture over DD. Suppose A,B,w∈A1(D)A,B,w\in A_1(D) satisfy

[A,B]∈A1(D)∗=D∗[A,B]\in A_1(D)^*=D^*

and

[A,w]=0.[A,w]=0.

Then

w∈D[A].w\in D[A].

The analogous result over a field of characteristic zero implies only w∈Q(D)[A]w\in Q(D)[A] over an integral domain. This conjecture is the noncommutative Weyl-algebra analogue of the two-dimensional Centralizer Conjecture and remains open in the stated generality.

References

Primary source

Vered Moskowicz, “The two-dimensional Centralizer Conjecture”, arXiv:1802.04685 (2018).

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