Noncommutative formal power series ring

ID: noncommutative-formal-power-series-ring

For a field and finitely many generators, this ring consists of arbitrary coefficient families indexed by finite words in the generators. Addition is coefficientwise and multiplication uses concatenation: the coefficient of in is , a finite sum. Finite series form the free associative algebra. If , their lowest nonzero homogeneous parts multiply to a nonzero polynomial, since a word of fixed length has a unique splitting at a specified position. Thus the ring is a noncommutative domain.

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