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Must a finitely presented nil algebra be nilpotent? (Ufnarovskij's question)

Claims Corollary 3.8: there is an infinite-dimensional finitely presented nonunital associative F2\mathbb F_2-algebra that is nil and Jacobson radical but not nilpotent; its unitization is finitely presented, algebraic and infinite-dimensional. This answers Ufnarovskij's nil question, Amitsur's radical question and the finite-presentation version of Kurosh's algebraic finiteness question negatively, over F2\mathbb F_2. Every matrix over its positive-degree ideal is nilpotent. It does NOT give examples over other fields or in characteristic zero, and nilpotence indices are unbounded.

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Must a finitely presented nil algebra be nilpotent? (Ufnarovskij's question)

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Claims Corollary 3.8: there is an infinite-dimensional finitely presented nonunital associative F2\mathbb F_2-algebra that is nil and Jacobson radical but not nilpotent; its unitization is finitely presented, algebraic and infinite-dimensional. This answers Ufnarovskij's nil question, Amitsur's radical question and the finite-presentation version of Kurosh's algebraic finiteness question negatively, over…

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Claims Corollary 3.8: there is an infinite-dimensional finitely presented nonunital associative F2\mathbb F_2-algebra that is nil and Jacobson radical but not nilpotent; its unitization is finitely presented, algebraic and infinite-dimensional. This answers Ufnarovskij's nil question, Amitsur's radical question and the finite-presentation version of Kurosh's algebraic finiteness question negatively, over F2\mathbb F_2. Every matrix over its positive-degree ideal is nilpotent. It does NOT give examples over other fields or in characteristic zero, and nilpotence indices are unbounded.

Claims Corollary 3.8: there is an infinite-dimensional finitely presented nonunital associative F2\mathbb F_2-algebra that is nil and Jacobson radical but not nilpotent; its unitization is finitely presented, algebraic and infinite-dimensional. This answers Ufnarovskij's nil question, Amitsur's radical question and the finite-presentation version of Kurosh's algebraic finiteness question negatively, over F2\mathbb F_2. Every matrix over its positive-degree ideal is nilpotent. It does NOT give examples over other fields or in characteristic zero, and nilpotence indices are unbounded.

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