For and , the action map in the display is injective. If kills , each commutator with a generator lies in and kills . Induction makes all these commutators zero, so is scalar; since it kills , it is zero. This finite-step faithfulness does not require the whole module to be finite-dimensional.
For a nonzero element of a Weyl algebra over a characteristic-zero field, choose a monomial of maximal total degree with coefficient . The displayed iterated commutators kill every lower-degree monomial. Another monomial of the same degree survives only if all its exponents dominate , which forces equality. Hence the result is a nonzero scalar. If the element has filtered degree at most , expansion of these commutators gives a sum of terms with both and of degree at most . This proves faithful finite-step action of a Weyl algebra over any characteristic-zero field.

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