When a completion of the universal enveloping algebra is a Banach PI-algebra?

Abstract

We prove that a Banach algebra $B$ that is a completion of the universal enveloping algebra of a finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ satisfies a polynomial identity if and only if the nilpotent radical $\mathfrak{n}$ of $\mathfrak{g}$ is associatively nilpotent in $B$. Furthermore, this holds if and only if a certain polynomial growth condition is satisfied on $\mathfrak{n}$.