Morita Context and Morita—Like Equivalence for the xst—Rings

The notion of the xst-rings was introduced by Garcfa and Marfn [5] in 1999.In this paper,we cousider Morita context,Morita-like equivalence and the exchange property for the xst-rings.The results of the first Morita theorem are generalized to the xst-rings.So we obtain an important Morita-like equivalence of the xst-rings,from which,as an immediate consequence,we deduce the main result of Xu-Shum-Turner [4] and the standard Morita equivalence,A-Mn(A),for a unital ring A.Moreover,we describe the properties of those well-known intermediate matrix rings,and show that the exchange property for a unital ring A coincides with the one for any Mn(A) as well as any intermediate matrix ring sitting between FM1(A) and FCг(A),which is an extension of a well-known result obtained by Nicholson[7].     

Equivalence for varieties in general and for $ {\cal BOOL} $ in particular

The varieties equivalent to a given variety are characterized in a purely categorical way. In fact they are described as the models of those Lawvere theories which are Morita equivalent to the Lawvere theory of which therefore are characterized first. Along this way the conceptual meanings of the n-th matrix power construction of a variety and McKenzie's σ-modification of classes of algebras [22] become transparent. Besides other applications not only the well known equivalences between the varieties of Post algebras of fixed orders m and the variety of Boolean algebras are obtained; moreover it can be shown that the varieties are the only varieties equivalent to . The results then are generalized to quasivarieties and more general classes of algebras. Received November 4, 1998; accepted in final form September 15, 1999.