BOUNDS FOR INDICES OF NILPOTENCY OF FINITELY GENERATED NIL RINGS OF FINITE INDEX

Abstract

An improved bound is given for the index of nil-potency of a finitely generated nil ring of index n in terms of the index of nilpotency of the ideal generated by T^m where m = [n/2] and T is a m-subset of the set of generators. If m = 3 it is proved that T¹⁰ is contained in an ideal generated by twenty-seven cubes and this is applied to get bounds for the index of nilpotency of a finitely generated nil ring of index 6 or 7, bounds which are less than one hundredth of the bounds we obtained in a previous paper.