For any ring and for any positive integer
, we put
For any ring , we denote by
the Weyl algebra.
If is a field with characteristic
, then we further employ the
following notations.
the center of
(Later we prove that
is actually equal to
.
.
(
-th roots are taken in the usual sense of commutative algebra.
is a commutative algebra over
.)
, the quotient field of
.
.
(
)
(
)
: a copy of
(Identified with the image of when
is injective).
: a copy of
: a copy of
(extension of
)
Similarly we use a notation
to indicate a copy of non-bar counterparts.
For a matrix , we denote by
the left action,
the right action, and the adjoint action by
, respectively.