Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Research Article

Identities in algebras with involution

Tsetska Grigorova Rashkovaa1

a1 Centre of Applied Mathematics and Informatics University of Rousse 7017 Rousse Bulgaria, e-mail: tcetcka@ami.ru.acad.bg

There is an approach due to Bergman describing ordinary polynomial identities for Mn (K) by means of commutative algebra. In the paper we apply this approach to the matrix algebra of even order M2n (K, *) with symplectic involution *.

(Received February 25 1999)