In this thesis we are concerned with themes suggested by rank properties of subspaces of matrices. Historically, most work on these topics has been devoted to matrices over such fields as the real or complex numbers, where geometric or analytic methods may be applied. Such techniques are not obviously applicable to finite fields, and there were very few general theorems relating to rank problem...

A new invariant of Poisson manifolds, a Poisson K-ring, is introduced. Hypothetically, this invariant is more tractable than such invariants as Poisson (co)homology. A version of this invariant is also defined for arbitrary algebroids. Basic properties of the Poisson K-ring are proved and the Poisson K-rings are calculated for a number of examples. In particular, for the zero Poisson structure ...

2 Preliminaries 5 2.1 The ring R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 The algebra A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Algebra A and (1+1)-dimensional cobordisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 Kauffman bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The universal enveloping algebra U (G) of a Lie algebra G acts on its representation ring R through D(R), the ring of differential operators on R. A quantised universal enveloping algebra (or quantum group) is a deformation of a universal enveloping algebra and acts not through the differential operators of its representation ring but through the quantised differential operators of its represen...

The universal enveloping algebra U (G) of a Lie algebra G acts on its representation ring R through D(R), the ring of differential operators on R. A quantised universal enveloping algebra (or quantum group) is a deformation of a universal enveloping algebra and acts not through the differential operators of its representation ring but through the quantised differential operators of its represen...

In this paper we show that a commutative semisimple ring is always a Smarandache ring. We will also give a necessary and sufficient condition for group algebra to be a Smarandache ring. Examples are provided for justification.

Given an n×n matrix c over a unitary ring R, the centralizer of in full Mn(R) is called principal ring, denoted by Sn(c,R). We investigate its structure and prove: (1) If invertible with c-free point, or if R has no zero-divisors Jordan-similar all eigenvalues center then separable Frobenius extension Sn(c,R) sense Kasch. (2) integral domain matrix, cellular R-algebra Graham Lehrer. In particul...

These are notes for a lecture given at Ohio University on June 3, 2006. An important topic in commutative algebra is the Rees algebra of an ideal in a commutative ring. The Rees algebra encodes a lot of information about the ideal and corresponds geometrically to a blow-up. One can represent the Rees algebra as the quotient of a polynomial ring by an ideal. This ideal is generated by the defini...

Miriam Cohen raised the question whether the smash product of a semisimple Hopf algebra and a semiprime module algebra is semiprime. In this paper we show that the smash product of a commutative semiprime module algebra over a semisimple cosemisimple Hopf algebra is semiprime. In particular we show that the central H-invariant elements of the Martindale ring of quotients of a module algebra for...