Locally Nilpotent Monomial Derivations
Tom 52 / 2004
                    
                    
                        Bulletin Polish Acad. Sci. Math. 52 (2004), 119-121                    
                                        
                        MSC: 13N15, 13M10.                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/ba52-2-2                    
                                    
                                                Streszczenie
We prove that every locally nilpotent monomial ${\textrm k}$-derivation of ${\textrm k}[X_{1}, {\ldotp \ldotp \ldotp },X_{n}]$ is triangular, whenever ${\textrm k}$ is a ring of characteristic zero. A method of testing monomial ${\textrm k}$-derivations for local nilpotency is also presented.