Local PI theory of Jordan systems

This paper is devoted to the study of Jordan systems having a local algebra which is PI. That condition seems to be a quite natural obstruction to the application of eater-related methods, and has been dealt with in several particular cases in some recent works. In this paper we give a systematic approach inspired by ideas of associative GPI theory. We show that the set of elements of a nondegenerate Jordan system at which the local algebra is PI (PI-elements) is an ideal, and prove an analogue of Amitsur's theorem on primitive GPI algebras: a primitive Jordan system having a nonzero PI local algebra has nonzero socle, equal to its ideal of PI-elements.

Appeared in J. Algebra 216 (1999), 302--327.


F. Montaner <fmontane@posta.unizar.es>