Corrigendum et addendum: the Frattini subalgebra of a Bernstein algebra

In a previous paper it is supposed that if A is a Bernstein algebra, every maximal subalgebra, M, verifies that dim M = dim A − 1. This is not true in general. Therefore Proposition 2 in this paper is not correct. However other results there, where this assertion was used, are correct but their proofs need some modifications now.

The Frattini subalgebra of a Bernstein algebra

Let A be a finite-dimensional Bernstein algebra over a field K with characteristic not 2. Maximal subalgebras of A are studied, and they are determined if A is a genetic algebra. It is also proved that the intersection of all maximal subalgebras of A (the Frattini subalgebra of A) is always an ideal. Finally the structure of Bernstein algebras with Frattini subalgebra equal to zero is described.