Chains of Prime Ideals and Primitivity of ℤ $\mathbb {Z}$ -Graded Algebras

In this paper we provide some results regarding affine, prime, \(\mathbb {Z}\)-graded algebras \(R=\bigoplus _{i\in \mathbb {Z}}R_{i}\) generated by elements with degrees 1,−1 and 0, with R0 finite-dimensional. The results are as follows. These algebras have a classical Krull dimension when they have quadratic growth. If Rk≠0 for almost all k then R is semiprimitive. If in addition R has GK dimension less than 3 then R is either primitive or PI. The tensor product of an arbitrary Brown-McCoy radical algebra of Gelfand Kirillov dimension less than three and any other algebra is Brown-McCoy radical.