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Differential identities, 2 × 2 upper triangular matrices and varieties of almost polynomial growth

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Abstract We study the differential identities of the algebra U T 2 of 2 × 2 upper triangular matrices over a field of characteristic zero. We let the Lie algebra L = Der ( U T 2 ) of derivations of U T 2 (and its universal enveloping algebra) act on it. We study the space of multilinear differential identities in n variables as a module for the symmetric group S n and we determine the decomposition of the corresponding character into irreducibles. If V is the variety of differential algebras generated by U T 2 , we prove that unlike the other cases (ordinary identities, group graded identities) V does not have almost polynomial growth. Nevertheless we exhibit a subvariety U of V having almost polynomial growth.