On the dimension of polynomial semirings

In our previous work, motivated by the study of tropical polynomials, a definition for prime congruences was given for an arbitrary commutative semiring. It was shown that for additively idempotent semirings this class exhibits some analogous properties to prime ideals in ring theory. The current paper focuses on the resulting notion of Krull dimension, which is defined as the length of the longest chain of prime congruences. Our main result states that for any additively idempotent semiring $A$, the semiring of polynomials $A[x]$ and the semiring of Laurent polynomials $A(x)$, we have $\dim A[x] = \dim A(x) = \dim A + 1$

Diffeological Clifford algebras and pseudo-bundles of Clifford modules

We consider the diffeological version of the Clifford algebra of a (diffeological) finite-dimensional vector space; we start by commenting on the notion of a diffeological algebra (which is the expected analogue of the usual one) and that of a diffeological module (also an expected counterpart of the usual notion). After considering the natural diffeology of the Clifford algebra, and its expected properties, we turn to our main interest, which is constructing pseudo-bundles of diffeological Clifford algebras and those of diffeological Clifford modules, by means of the procedure called diffeological gluing. The paper has a significant expository portion, regarding mostly diffeological algebras and diffeological vector pseudo-bundles.Comment: 35 pages; exposition improved, an example adde

Proper twin-triangular Ga-actions on A^4 are translations

An additive group action on an affine 3 -space over a complex Dedekind domain A is said to be twin-triangular if it is generated by a locally nilpotent derivation of A[y,z,t] of the form rd/dy+p(y)d/dz + q(y)d/dt, where r belongs to A and p,q belong to A[y] . We show that these actions are translations if and only if they are proper. Our approach avoids the computation of rings of invariants and focuses more on the nature of geometric quotients for such actions

Contractions of Lie algebras and algebraic groups

Degenerations, contractions and deformations of various algebraic structures play an important role in mathematics and physics. There are many different definitions and special cases of these notions. We try to give a general definition which unifies these notions and shows the connections among them. Here we focus on contractions of Lie algebras and algebraic groups

Cluster-tilted algebras without clusters

Cluster-tilted algebras are trivial extensions of tilted algebras. This correspondence induces a surjective map from tilted algebras to cluster-tilted algebras. If B is a cluster-tilted algebra, we use the fibre of B under this map to study the module category of B. In particular, we introduce the notion of reflections of tilted algebras and define an algorithm that constructs the transjective component of the Auslander-Reiten quiver of cluster-tilted algebras of tree type.Comment: 37 page