On the respective terms of the derived and the polycentral series of a free lie algabra and an ideal

Abstract

Let F be a free Lie algebra of rank> 1 and S be an ideal of F. Denote by F_m and F_{n l},…,n_k the terms of the lower central and the polycentral series of F. The aim of this paper is to provide a sufficient condition for the quotient algebra F_{n l},…,n_k/S_{n l},…,n_k to be infinitely generated. The case F_m/S_m was studied in [6] for free groups and in [ 2 ] for free Lie algebras. In this paper the following main theorem is proved : If F = F2 = S, k > 1 and n_i > 1 for i=l,…, k, then F_{n l}…,n_k/S_{n l} is infinitely generated.