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Centralizers in free associative algebras

Centralizers in free associative algebras

Let F be the free associative algebra on some set of generators over a field k (equivalently: the tensor algebra on some fc-vector-space).Though R is in general "very" noncommutative, it is easy to find pairs of commuting elements: If we take any z e R, and polynomials P and Q …