Beck modules and alternative algebrasWe set out the general theory of "Beck modules" in a variety of algebras and
describe them as modules over suitable "universal enveloping" unital
associative algebras. We pay particular attention to the somewhat nonstandard
case of "alternative algebras," defined by a restricted associative law, and
determine the Poincaré polynomial of the universal enveloping algebra in the
homogenous case.
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