• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.439-447
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• 2003

Let (equation omitted) be a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra with the indecomposable generalized Cartan matrix A and W be its Weyl group. Let $\theta$ be the highest root of the corresponding finite dimensional simple Lie algebra ${\gg}$ of g. For the type ${A_N}^{(r)}$, we give an element $\omega_{o}\;\in\;W$ such that ${{\omega}_o}^{-1}({\{\Delta\Delta}_{+}})\;=\;{\{\Delta\Delta}_{-}}$. And then we prove that the degree of nilpotency of the subalgebra (equation omitted) is greater than or equal to $ht{\theta}+1$.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.5_6
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• pp.1489-1492
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• 2009

Nagata[3] and Higman[1] showed that nil-algebra of the nilindex n is nilpotent of finite index. In this paper we show that the bounded degree of the nilpotency is less than or equal to $2^n-1$. Our proof needs only some elementary fact about Vandermonde determinant, which is much simpler than Nagata's or Higman's proof.