A short note on the image of multilinear graded polynomials on matrix algebras

Abstract

We investigate the subspaces obtained by images of multilinear graded polynomials evaluated on the matrix algebra endowed with the canonical $C_n$-grading, where $C_n$ denotes the cyclic group of order $n$. Moreover, this graded algebra admits a natural action of $C_n$ arising from a fine refinement of the grading. We prove that every $C_n$-submodule of the trivial component of the grading is the image of some multilinear polynomial in graded variables. In particular, we answer in the negative a recent conjecture posed by T.~de Castilho and L.~Centrone (2023).