RT Journal Article T1 Gradings induced by nilpotent elements. A1 García González, Esther A1 Gómez-Lozano, Miguel Ángel A1 Muñoz-Alcázar, Rubén José A1 Vera de Salas, Guillermo K1 Anillos (Álgebra) K1 Anillos graduados AB An element a is nilpotent last-regular if it is nilpotent and its last nonzero power is von Neumann regular. In this paper we show that any nilpotent last-regular element a in an associative algebra R over a ring of scalars Φ gives rise to a complete system of orthogonal idempotents that induces a finite Z-grading on R; we also show that such element gives rise to an sl2-triple in R with semisimple adjoint map adh, and that the grading of R with respect to the complete system of orthogonal idempotents is a refinement of the Φ grading induced by the eigenspaces of adh. These results can be adapted to nilpotent elements a with all their powers von Neumann regular, in which case the element a can be completed to an sl2-triple and a is homogeneous of degree 2 both in the Z-grading of R and in the Φ-grading given by the eigenspaces of adh. PB Elsevier YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27996 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27996 LA eng NO Esther García, Miguel Gómez Lozano, Rubén Muñoz Alcázar, Guillermo Vera de Salas, Gradings induced by nilpotent elements, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 656, 2023, Pages 92-111, ISSN 0024-3795, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2022.09.017 NO All authors were partially supported by the Junta de Andalucía FQM264 and by Universidad de Málaga, B4: Ayudas para Proyectos Puente UMA “Sistemas de Jordan, Álgebras de Lie y estructuras relacionadas” DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026