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Let F be a field of characteristic zero. By a ⁎-superalgebra we mean an algebra A with graded involution over F. Recently, algebras with graded involution have been extensively studied in PI-theory and the sequence of ⁎-graded codimensions { c n gri (A) } n ≥ 1 has been investigated by several authors. In this paper, we classify varieties generated by unitary ⁎-superalgebras having quadratic growth of ⁎-graded codimensions. As a result we obtain that a unitary ⁎-superalgebra with quadratic growth is T 2 ⁎ -equivalent to a finite direct sum of minimal unitary ⁎-superalgebras with at most quadratic growth, where at least one ⁎-superalgebra of this sum has quadratic growth. Furthermore, we provide a method to determine explicitly the factors of those direct sums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For two given idempotents p and q from an associative algebra A , in this paper, we offer a comprehensive classification of algebras spanned by the idempotents p and q. This classification is based on the condition that p and q are not tightly coupled and satisfy (p q) m − 1 = (p q) m but (p q) m − 2 p ≠ (p q) m − 1 p for some m (≥ 2) ∈ N. Subsequently, we categorize all the group invertible elements and establish an upper bound for the Drazin index of any elements in these algebras spanned by p , q. Moreover, we formulate a new representation for the Drazin inverse of α p + q under two different assumptions, (p q) m − 1 = (p q) m and λ (p q) m − 1 = (p q) m , where α is a non-zero and λ is a non-unit real or complex number. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let F be a field of characteristic zero and let m ≥ 2 be an integer. In this paper, we prove that if a group grading on U T m (F) admits a graded involution then this grading is a coarsening of a Z ⌊ m 2 ⌋ -grading on U T m (F) and the graded involution is equivalent to the reflection or symplectic involution on U T m (F) , this grading is called the finest grading on U T m (F). Furthermore, if m ≤ 4 the algebra U T m (F) with the finest grading satisfies no non-trivial monomial identities. For the finest grading, a finite basis for the (Z ⌊ m 2 ⌋ , ⁎) -identities is exhibited with the reflection and symplectic involutions and the asymptotic growth of the (Z ⌊ m 2 ⌋ , ⁎) -codimensions is determined. As a consequence, we prove that for any G -grading on U T m (F) and any graded involution the (G , ⁎) -exponent is m. Finally, we study the algebra U T 3 (F). For this algebra, there are, up to equivalence, two non-trivial gradings that admit a graded involution: the canonical Z -grading and the Z 2 -grading induced by (0 , 1 , 0). We determine a basis for the (Z 2 , ⁎) -identities and we compute the codimension sequence for the (Z 2 , ⁎) -graded identities for U T 3 (F). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let F be any field of characteristic different from two and let E be the Grassmann algebra of an infinite dimensional F -vector space L. In this paper we will provide a condition for a Z 2 -grading on E to behave like the natural Z 2 -grading E c a n. More specifically, our aim is to prove the validity of a weak version of a conjecture presented in [10]. The conjecture poses that every Z 2 -grading on E has at least one non-zero homogeneous element of L. As a consequence, we obtain a characterization of E c a n by means of its Z 2 -graded polynomial identities. Furthermore we construct a Z 2 -grading on E that gives a negative answer to the conjecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let n be an integer greater than 1, and M n (C) be the algebra of all n × n -complex matrices. Let x 0 ∈ C n be a nonzero vector, and Φ be a linear map on M n (C) such that Φ (I) is invertible. For any matrix T ∈ M n (C) , let γ (T , x 0) denote the local reduced minimum modulus of T at x 0. In this paper, we show that Φ satisfies γ (T , x 0) = 0 ⇔ γ (Φ (T) , x 0) = 0 , (T ∈ M n (C)) , if and only if there are two invertible matrices A , B ∈ M n (C) such that A x 0 = A ⁎ x 0 = x 0 and Φ (T) = B T A for all T ∈ M n (C). When n = 2 , we show that the invertibility hypothesis of Φ (I) is redundant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Max-plus algebra is an algebraic structure in which classical addition and multiplication are replaced by maximum and addition, respectively. We say that the columns of a real matrix A are strongly independent if the max-plus linear system A ⊗ x = b has a unique solution for at least one real vector b. A square matrix A with strongly independent columns is called strongly regular. The investigation of the properties of regularity is important for applications. The values of vector or matrix inputs in practice are usually not exact numbers and they can be rather considered as values in some intervals. The present paper studies three versions of the regularity of matrices and interval matrices, namely, strong regularity, von Neumann regularity and Gondran-Minoux regularity. For each concept of regularity we will present equivalent conditions which can be verified in polynomial time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]