Codimensões e cocaracteres de PI-álgebras.

Abstract

The ideas of codimensions and cocharacters of a PI-algebra are of great and central importance in the applications of representations of symmetric groups to PI-theory (theory of the polynomial identities). The study of the concepts of codimensions and cocharacters started in 1972 by Amitai Regev in his important work about polynomial identities of the tensor product of PI-algebras. During the last decades many important results arose with the use of representations and asymptotic methods in PI-theory. In this work we will present firstly ideas and basic results in the Young’s theory about the representations of symmetric groups. With these results we shall study the limited sequences of codimensions and the cocharacter sequences of algebras that satisfy some of the Capelli identity. It will also be presented the calculation of the codimensions and cocharacters of the Grassmann Algebra.