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Restricted Lazard elimination and modular Lie powers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Ralph Stöhr
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We exhibit a variation of the Lazard Elimination theorem for free restricted Lie algebras, and apply it to two problems about finite group actions on free Lie algebras over fields of positive characteristic.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2001

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