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NILPOTENT ELEMENTS IN THE JACOBSON–WITT ALGEBRA OVER A FINITE FIELD

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It is shown in this paper that the number of nilpotent elements in the Jacobson–Witt algebra W n over a finite field \( {\mathbb F} \) q is equal to the expected power of q.

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SKRYABIN, S. NILPOTENT ELEMENTS IN THE JACOBSON–WITT ALGEBRA OVER A FINITE FIELD. Transformation Groups 19, 927–940 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-014-9270-0

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