Furnishes important research papers and results on group algebras and PI-algebras presented at the Conference on Methods in Ring Theory held in Levico Terme, Italy. This work familiarizes researchers with the topics, techniques, and methodologies encompassing contemporary algebra.

Vesselin Drensky (Edited by) , Antonio Giambruno (Universita Di Palermo, Italy) (Edited by) , Sudarshan K. Sehgal (University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada) (Edited by)

Identities of algebras with actions of Hopf algebras; consequences of degree n+2 of the standard polynomial of degree n; generators of the units of the modular group algebra of a finite p-group; Young derivation of the trace cocharacters of the 2x2 matrices; torsion subgroups of units in Artinian rings; polynomial ideals and identities of matrices; Gefand-Kirillov dimension of PI-algebras; PI-algebras and codimension growth; unit bases in small cyclic group rings; units in integral group rings - a survey; on the multilinear components of the regular prime varieties; units in group rings and geometry; the semiprimitivity of group algebra; scale for codimension growth of Lie algebras; the Hopf shuffle algebra and Lie series; graded identities and cocharacters of products of T-ideals; deformations of represenations; the Engel condition, semigroup identities and collapsibility in associative rings; idempotent ideals in Lie nilpotent rings; units and group identities in rings; varieties and identities of affine Kac-Moody algebras.