DIMENSIONS OF SUBSPACES OF THE POLYNOMIAL ALGEBRA  GENERATED BY SPIKES

Mbakiso Mothebe (Botswana)

Received September 28, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: dimension, spike, polynomial algebra.