The Mesyan Conjecture: a restatement and a correction

Autor: Fagundes, Pedro Souza, de Mello, Thiago Castilho, Santos, Pedro Henrique da Silva dos
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Turkish Journal of Mathematics: Vol. 46: No. 5, Article 11, 2022
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.55730/1300-0098.3232
Popis: The well-known Lvov-Kaplansky conjecture states that the image of a multilinear polynomial $f$ evaluated on $n\times n$ matrices is a vector space. A weaker version of this conjecture, known as the Mesyan conjecture, states that if $m=deg( f)$ and $n\geq m-1$ then its image contains the set of trace zero matrices. Such conjecture has been proved for polynomials of degree $m \leq 4$. The proof of the case $m=4$ contains an error in one of the lemmas. In this paper, we correct the proof of such lemma and present some evidences which allow us to state the Mesyan conjecture for the new bound $n \geq \frac{m+1}{2}$, which cannot be improved.
Comment: Research article dedicated to Professor Vesselin Drensky on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Databáze: arXiv