nilpotent
Speech parts
1. nilpotent - Noun
2. nilpotent - Adjective
Meaning
equal to zero when raised to a certain power
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Examples
A nilpotent element in a nonzero ring is necessarily a zero divisor.
A Lie algebra is nilpotent if the lower central series : becomes zero eventually.
Commutators are used to define nilpotent and solvable groups.
In fact for any ring, the nilpotent elements in the center of the ring are also in the Jacobson radical.sfn So, for commutative rings, the nilradical is contained in the Jacobson radical.
Linear Associative Algebra (1881) American Journal of Mathematics 4(1):221 6 Most significantly, they identified the nilpotent and the idempotent elements as useful hypercomplex numbers for classifications.
Hence, ũ can directly be identified with the nilpotent element of the basis of the dual numbers.