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PI-algebras are studied by attaching invariants to the homogeneous identities analogous to the invariants of the multilinear identities studied by Regev. Also, it is shown that every finitely generated PI-algebra is polynomially bounded.
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Berele, A. Homogeneous polynomial identities. Israel J. Math. 42, 258–272 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02802727
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