Radicals of Jordan rings connected with alternative rings

Subject to a certain restriction on the additive group of an alternative ring A, we prove that R(A)=R(A⁽⁺⁾), where A⁽⁺⁾ is a Jordan ring and R is one of the following radicals: the Jacobson radical, the upper nil-radical, the locally nilpotent radical, or the lower nil-radical. For the proof of these relationships Herstein's well-known construction for associative rings is generalized to alternative rings.     

Numerical equivalence defined on Chow groups of Noetherian local rings

In the present paper, we define a notion of numerical equivalence on Chow groups or Grothendieck groups of Noetherian local rings, which is an analogue of that on smooth projective varieties. Under a mild condition, it is proved that the Chow group modulo numerical equivalence is a finite dimensional -vector space, as in the case of smooth projective varieties. Numerical equivalence on local rings is deeply related to that on smooth projective varieties. For example, if Grothendiecks standard conjectures are true, then a vanishing of Chow group (of local rings) modulo numerical equivalence can be proven. Using the theory of numerical equivalence, the notion of numerically Roberts rings is defined. It is proved that a Cohen–Macaulay local ring of positive characteristic is a numerically Roberts ring if and only if the Hilbert–Kunz multiplicity of a maximal primary ideal of finite projective dimension is always equal to its colength. Numerically Roberts rings satisfy the vanishing property of intersection multiplicities. We shall prove another special case of the vanishing of intersection multiplicities using a vanishing of localized Chern characters.     

Pseudo-algebraically closed rings

We use a variant of the nonsingular Hasse Principle to define a class of rings analogeous to PAC fields, and prove that this class has nice model theoretical properties. Since there are a lot of examples of such rings which are of interest for arithmetical purpose we apply our study to those examples, obtaining several decidability results and one purely algebraic application. Received: 29 March 1999 / Revised version: 4 July 2000     

McCoy rings and zero-divisors

We investigate relations between the McCoy property and other standard ring theoretic properties. For example, we prove that the McCoy property does not pass to power series rings. We also classify how the McCoy property behaves under direct products and direct sums. We prove that McCoy rings with 1 are Dedekind finite, but not necessarily Abelian. In the other direction, we prove that duo rings, and many semi-commutative rings, are McCoy. Degree variations are defined, studied, and classified. The McCoy property is shown to behave poorly with respect to Morita equivalence and (infinite) matrix constructions.     

Basic elements in graded rings

In dealing with graded rings or projective varieties, it is often necessary to find homogeneous elements of graded modules with certain desirable properties. In this paper we prove a “graded version” of the theorem of Eisenbud and Evans on basic elements. [2, Theorem A]. This result is used to generalize a theorem of Kleiman on subbundles of vector bundles on quasiprojective schemes.     

Weights modulo p e of linear codes over rings

In this paper we look at linear codes over the Galois ring $GR(p^{\ell}, m)$ with the homogeneous weight and we prove that the number of codewords with homogenous weights in a particular residue class modulo p ^e are divisible by high powers of p. We also state a result for a more generalized weight on linear codes over Galois rings. We obtain similar results for the Lee weights of linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_{2^m}+u\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$ and we prove that the results we obtain are best possible. The results that we obtain are an improvement to Wilson’s results in [Wilson RM (2003) In: Proceedings of international workshop on Cambridge linear algebra and graph coloring]     

Local rings of exchange rings

We characterize the exchange property for non-unital rings in terms of their local rings at elements,and we use this characterization to show that the exchange property is Morita invariant for idempotent rings.We also prove that every ring contains a greatest exchange idela(with respect to the inclusion).     

Central semicommutative rings

A ring R is central semicommutative if ab = 0 implies that aRb ? Z(R) for any a, b ∈ R. Since every semicommutative ring is central semicommutative, we study sufficient condition for central semicommutative rings to be semicommutative. We prove that some results of semicommutative rings can be extended to central semicommutative rings for this general settings, in particular, it is shown that every central semicommutative ring is nil-semicommutative. We show that the class of central semicommutative rings lies strictly between classes of semicommutative rings and abelian rings. For an Armendariz ring R, we prove that R is central semicommutative if and only if the polynomial ring R[x] is central semicommutative. Moreover, for a central semicommutative ring R, it is proven that (1) R is strongly regular if and only if R is a left GP-V′-ring whose maximal essential left ideals are GW-ideals if and only if R is a left GP-V′-ring whose maximal essential right ideals are GW-ideals. (2) If R is a left SF and central semicommutative ring, then R is a strongly regular ring.     

Commutative rings in which every finitely generated ideal is quasi-projective

This paper studies the multiplicative ideal structure of commutative rings in which every finitely generated ideal is quasi-projective. We provide some preliminaries on quasi-projective modules over commutative rings. Then we investigate the correlation with the well-known Prüfer conditions; that is, we prove that this class of rings stands strictly between the two classes of arithmetical rings and Gaussian rings. Thereby, we generalize Osofsky’s theorem on the weak global dimension of arithmetical rings and partially resolve Bazzoni-Glaz’s related conjecture on Gaussian rings. We also establish an analogue of Bazzoni-Glaz results on the transfer of Prüfer conditions between a ring and its total ring of quotients. We then examine various contexts of trivial ring extensions in order to build new and original examples of rings where all finitely generated ideals are subject to quasi-projectivity, marking their distinction from related classes of Prüfer rings.     

No Associative PI-Algebra Coincides with Its Commutant

We prove that each (possibly not finitely generated) associative PI-algebra does not coincide with its commutant. We thus solve I. V. L'vov's problem in the Dniester Notebook. The result follows from the fact (also established in this article) that, in every T-prime variety, some weak identity holds and there exists a central polynomial (the existence of a central polynomial was earlier proved by A. R. Kemer). Moreover, we prove stability of T-prime varieties (in the case of characteristic zero, this was done by S. V. Okhitin who used A. R. Kemer's classification of T-prime varieties).     

Varieties of rings,where all subdirectly irreducible finite rings are Armendariz ones

In this paper we study varieties of rings, where all subdirectly irreducible finite rings are Armendariz. We also describe the locally finite varieties of Armendariz rings.     

On indices of local rings along local homomorphisms

Let φ:R → Sbe a local homomorphism of Gorenstein local rings of finite flat dimension. We prove if M is a stable maximal Cohen-Macaulay R-module, then M ?_R Sis also a stable maximal Cohen-Macaulay S-module. By using it, we also prove that index(R) ≤ index(S).     

Almost slender rings and compact rings

Classical results concerning slenderness for commutative integral domains are generalized to commutative rings with zero divisors. This is done by extending the methods from the domain case and bringing them in connection with results on the linear topologies associated to non-discrete Hausdorff filtrations. In many cases a weakened notion “almost slenderness” of slenderness is appropriate for rings with zero divisors. Special results for countable rings are extended to rings said to be of “bounded type” (including countable rings, ‘small’ rings, and, for instance, rings that are countably generated as algebras over an Artinian ring).More precisely, for a ring R of bounded type it is proved that R is slender if R is reduced and has no simple ideals, or if R is Noetherian and has no simple ideals; moreover, R is almost slender if R is not perfect (in the sense of H. Bass). We use our methods to study various special classes of rings, for instance von Neumann regular rings and valuation rings. Among other results we show that the following two rings are slender: the ring of Puiseux series over a field and the von Neumann regular ring $k^{\mathbb{N}}/k^{(\mathbb{N})}$ over a von Neumann regular ring k.For a Noetherian ring R we prove that R is a finite product of local complete rings iff R satisfies one of several (equivalent) conditions of algebraic compactness. A 1-dimensional Noetherian ring is outside this ‘compact’ class precisely when it is almost slender. For the rings of classical algebraic geometry we prove that a localization of an algebra finitely generated over a field is either Artinian or almost slender. Finally, we show that a Noetherian ring R is a finite product of local complete rings with finite residue fields exactly when there exists a map of R-algebras $R^{\mathbb{N}}\to R$ vanishing on $R^{(\mathbb{N})}$.     

FP-injective semirings,semigroup rings and Leavitt path algebras

In this paper we give characterisations of FP-injective semirings (previously termed “exact” semirings in work of the first author). We provide a basic connection between FP-injective semirings and P-injective semirings, and establish that FP-injectivity of semirings is a Morita invariant property. We show that the analogue of the Faith-Menal conjecture (relating FP-injectivity and self-injectivity for rings satisfying certain chain conditions) does not hold for semirings. We prove that the semigroup ring of a locally finite inverse monoid over an FP-injective ring is FP-injective and give a criterion for the Leavitt path algebra of a finite graph to be FP-injective.     

Simple flat Leavitt path algebras are von Neumann regular

For a unital ring, it is an open question whether flatness of simple modules implies all modules are flat and thus the ring is von Neumann regular. The question was raised by Ramamurthi over 40?years ago who called such rings SF-rings (i.e. simple modules are flat). In this note we show that an SF Steinberg algebra of an ample Hausdorff groupoid, graded by an ordered group, has an aperiodic unit space. For graph groupoids, this implies that the graphs are acyclic. Combining with the Abrams–Rangaswamy Theorem, it follows that SF Leavitt path algebras are regular, answering Ramamurthi’s question in positive for the class of Leavitt path algebras.     

Residue complexes over noncommutative rings

Residue complexes were introduced by Grothendieck in algebraic geometry. These are canonical complexes of injective modules that enjoy remarkable functorial properties (traces). In this paper we study residue complexes over noncommutative rings. These objects have a more intricate structure than in the commutative case, since they are complexes of bimodules. We develop methods to prove uniqueness, existence and functoriality of residue complexes. For a polynomial identity algebra over a field (admitting a Noetherian connected filtration) we prove existence of the residue complex and describe its structure in detail.     

Comparability for ideals of regular rings

In this paper we investigate necessary and sufficient conditions under which the ideals possess comparability structure. For regular rings, we prove that every square matrix over ideals satisfying general comparability admits a diagonal reduction by quasi-invertible matrices.     

Divisor class group and canonical class of rings defined by ideals of pfaffians

In this paper we study the rings defined by ideals of pfaffians of a skew symmetric matrix of indeterminates. We analyze the case in which the pfaffians are not necessarily of fixed size. We prove that such rings are Cohen-Macaulay normal domains and we compute the divisor class group and the canonical class. It allows us to determine which of our rings are Gorenstein.     

Homogeneous nilradicals over semigroup graded rings

In this paper we study the homogeneity of radicals defined by nilpotence or primality conditions, in rings graded by a semigroup S. When S is a unique product semigroup, we show that the right (and left) strongly prime and uniformly strongly prime radicals are homogeneous, and an even stronger result holds for the generalized nilradical. We further prove that rings graded by torsion-free, nilpotent groups have homogeneous upper nilradical. We conclude by showing that non-semiprime rings graded by a large class of semigroups must always contain nonzero homogeneous nilpotent ideals.     

Partial actions and partial skew group rings

In this paper we consider partial actions of groups on algebras and partial skew group rings. After some general results we prove two versions of Maschke's theorem and then we study von Neumann regularity, the prime radical and the Jacobson radical of partial skew group rings. In this way we extend many results which are known for skew group rings.