Sharpness conjecture for products of commutators in associative rings

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Let m,n∈Zm,n\in\mathbb Z satisfy m,n>1m,n>1, and suppose that at least one of mm or nn is odd. Let T(k)T^{(k)} denote the relevant subgroup or ideal generated by products of kk-fold commutators in a unital associative ring.

Sharpness conjecture. If (m,n)≠(3,3)(m,n)\ne(3,3), then there is a unital associative ring AA and elements ai,bj∈Aa_i,b_j\in A such that

[a1,…,am][b1,…,bn]∉T(m+n−1).[a_1,\dots,a_m][b_1,\dots,b_n]\notin T^{(m+n-1)}.

The claim asserts that, apart from the exceptional case (m,n)=(3,3)(m,n)=(3,3), the coefficient 33 in the preceding theorem cannot generally be removed. The cited discussion gives evidence for this sharpness, while the (3,3)(3,3) case is known to behave exceptionally.

References

Primary source

Galina Deryabina and Alexei Krasilnikov, “On some products of commutators in an associative ring”, arXiv:1812.03585 (2018).

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