Linearly compact rings having a simple group of units

Those linearly compact rings with identity having a simple group of units and a transfinitely nilpotent Jacobson radical are identified. A consequence of this characterization is Cohen and Koh's classification theorem for compact rings with identity having a simple group of units.     

Idempotents and the multiplicative group of some totally bounded rings

In this paper, we extend some results of D.Dolzan on finite rings to profinite rings, a complete classification of profinite commutative rings with a monothetic group of units is given. We also prove the metrizability of commutative profinite rings with monothetic group of units and without nonzero Boolean ideals. Using a property of Mersenne numbers, we construct a family of power 2^ℵ0 commutative non-isomorphic profinite semiprimitive rings with monothetic group of units.     

Topological Rings of Quotients and Rings Without Open Left Ideals

Simple locally compact rings without open left ideals were considered in [13] and general locally compact rings without open left ideals were studied extensively in [5] and [6]. We remove the hypothesis of local compactness and consider topological rings A without open left ideals but containing an open subring R. In section 4 we show that under these conditions A is completely determined by R. More precisely A can be identified with the topological ring of quotients C(R) introduced in [8]. As an R-module _RA is topologically isomorphic to I_*(_RR), the topological injective hull of _RR. The last statement was proved in [6] for A locally compact and R compact. Section 5 gives a characterization of those linearly topologized rings R that can be openly embedded into a ring A without open left ideals. In particular we shall show that the open left ideals form an idempotent ideal filter with quotient ring A. In section 6 we consider the class ? of all topological rings that can be openly embedded into a topological ring without open left ideals. If we restrict our attention to linearly topologized rings, then ? is Morita-invariant. In section 2 we construct a topological ring of quotients Q_*(R) and prove that it coincides with the ring C(R) of [8].     

Torsion units for some almost simple groups

We investigate the Zassenhaus conjecture regarding rational conjugacy of torsion units in integral group rings for certain automorphism groups of simple groups. Recently, many new restrictions on partial augmentations for torsion units of integral group rings have improved the effectiveness of the Luther-Passi method for verifying the Zassenhaus conjecture for certain groups. We prove that the Zassenhaus conjecture is true for the automorphism group of the simple group PSL(2, 11). Additionally we prove that the Prime graph question is true for the automorphism group of the simple group PSL(2, 13).     

A note on the units of semigroup rings

In [2] Coleman and Enochs obtained results about the units of the polynomial ring R[x] for rings R satisfying a condi-tion which is, in some sense, a generalization of commutativity. In [3] some of these results were extended to group rings over an ordered group. In this note a class of rings larger than the class considered in [2] is used to extend the results in [2] and 3] to the semigroup ring RG, G an u.p, semigroup.

In the last section we give a necessary and sufficient condi-tion for an element to be a divisor of zero in RG where G is an u.p. semigroup.     

The topological jacobson radical of rings. II

In this paper, topologically primitive rings and rings possessing a faithful topologically irreducible module and bounded by this module are considered for the investigation of properties of their topological Jacobson radical. We investigate the topological Jacobson radical in some classes of topological rings such as left topologically Artinian rings, topological rings possessing a basis of neighborhoods of zero consisting of ideals, compact rings, and bounded strictly linearly compact rings.     

Sums of even powers in Archimedean rings

This note is devoted to the study of totally archimedean rings of regular functions. We extend Schmüdgen's theorem to this class of rings. Moreover, we show that, in such rings, every totally positive element is a sum of even powers of totally positive elements, and hence is a sum of even powers of units. Received: 21 October 1999; in final form: 10 November 2000 / Published online: 18 January 2002     

On Topological Semigroups of Matrix Units

On the infinite semigroup of matrix units there exists no semigroup compact [countably compact] topology. Any continuous homomorphism from the infinite topological semigroup of matrix units into a compact topological semigroup is annihilating. The semigroup of matrix units is algebraically h-closed in the class of topological inverse semigroups. Some H-closed minimal semigroup topologies on the infinite semigroup of matrix units are considered.     

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.     

An ensemble of idempotent lifting hypotheses

Lifting idempotents modulo ideals is an important tool in studying the structure of rings. This paper lays out the consequences of lifting other properties modulo ideals, including lifting of von Neumann regular elements, lifting isomorphic idempotents, and lifting conjugate idempotents. Applications are given for IC rings, perspective rings, and Dedekind-finite rings, which improve multiple results in the literature. We give a new characterization of the class of exchange rings; they are rings where regular elements lift modulo all left ideals.We also uncover some hidden connections between these lifting properties. For instance, if regular elements lift modulo an ideal, then so do isomorphic idempotents. The converse is true when units lift. The logical relationships between these and several other important lifting properties are completely characterized. Along the way, multiple examples are developed that illustrate limitations to the theory.     

Definable Compactness and Definable Subgroups of o-Minimal Groups

The paper introduces the notion of definable compactness andwithin the context of o-minimal structures proves several topologicalproperties of definably compact spaces. In particular a definableset in an o-minimal structure is definably compact (with respectto the subspace topology) if and only if it is closed and bounded.Definable compactness is then applied to the study of groupsand rings in o-minimal structures. The main result proved isthat any infinite definable group in an o-minimal structurethat is not definably compact contains a definable torsion-freesubgroup of dimension 1. With this theorem, a complete characterizationis given of all rings without zero divisors that are definablein o-minimal structures. The paper concludes with several examplesillustrating some limitations on extending the theorem.     

Universal gradings of orders

For commutative rings, we introduce the notion of a universal grading, which can be viewed as the “largest possible grading”. While not every commutative ring (or order) has a universal grading, we prove that every reduced order has a universal grading, and this grading is by a finite group. Examples of graded orders are provided by group rings of finite abelian groups over rings of integers in number fields. We also generalize known properties of nilpotents, idempotents, and roots of unity in such group rings to the case of graded orders; this has applications to cryptography. Lattices play an important role in this paper; a novel aspect is that our proofs use that the additive group of any reduced order can in a natural way be equipped with a lattice structure.     

Compact leaves of structurally stable foliations

We prove that any compact manifold whose fundamental group contains an abelian normal subgroup of positive rank can be represented as a leaf of a structurally stable suspension foliation on a compact manifold. In this case, the role of a transversal manifold can be played by an arbitrary compact manifold. We construct examples of structurally stable foliations that have a compact leaf with infinite solvable fundamental group which is not nilpotent. We also distinguish a class of structurally stable foliations each of whose leaves is compact and locally stable in the sense of Ehresmann and Reeb.     

The Weil-��tale fundamental group of a number field II

We define the fundamental group underlying the Weil-étale cohomology of number rings. To this aim, we define the Weil-étale topos as a refinement of the Weil-étale sites introduced by Lichtenbaum (Ann Math 170(2):657–683, 2009). We show that the (small) Weil-étale topos of a smooth projective curve defined in this paper is equivalent to the natural definition. Then we compute the Weil-étale fundamental group of an open subscheme of the spectrum of a number ring. Our fundamental group is a projective system of locally compact topological groups, which represents first degree cohomology with coefficients in locally compact abelian groups. We apply this result to compute the Weil-étale cohomology in low degrees and to prove that the Weil-étale topos of a number ring satisfies the expected properties of the conjectural Lichtenbaum topos.     

Infinite-dimensional diagonalization and semisimplicity

We characterize the diagonalizable subalgebras of End(V), the full ring of linear operators on a vector space V over a field, in a manner that directly generalizes the classical theory of diagonalizable algebras of operators on a finite-dimensional vector space. Our characterizations are formulated in terms of a natural topology (the “finite topology”) on End(V), which reduces to the discrete topology in the case where V is finite-dimensional. We further investigate when two subalgebras of operators can and cannot be simultaneously diagonalized, as well as the closure of the set of diagonalizable operators within End(V). Motivated by the classical link between diagonalizability and semisimplicity, we also give an infinite-dimensional generalization of the Wedderburn–Artin theorem, providing a number of equivalent characterizations of left pseudocompact, Jacoboson semisimple rings that parallel various characterizations of artinian semisimple rings. This theorem unifies a number of related results in the literature, including the structure of linearly compact, Jacobson semsimple rings and cosemisimple coalgebras over a field.     

Torsion-complete and algebraically compact groups with compact endomorphism rings

We give a complete characterization of torsion-complete and algebraically compact abelian groups whose endomorphism rings admit a compact ring topology.     

Locally Artinian Serial Rings

Abstract

In this paper we extend a well-known characterization of unital Artinian serial rings to the analagous class of rings with local units. In particular we characterize locally Artinian serial rings as those in which every finitely generated module or every finitely cogenerated module is uniserial. Additionally, we show that the entire characterization does not extend, as there exist locally Artinian serial rings that have non-serial modules.     

关于模糊拓扑环的直积

给出模糊拓扑环族直积的定义,研究它的性质,及任意模糊拓扑环族直积、与其模糊拓扑子环,与其模糊拓扑剩余环之间的同构问题.并对(QU)型模糊拓扑环关于上述问题进行研究.     

Normal Complements of the Trivial Units in the Unit Group of Some Integral Group Rings

Abstract

We fully describe all normal complements of the trivial units in the integral group rings of the dihedral groups of order 6 and 8.     

Abelian Groups with Annihilator Ideals of Endomorphism Rings

We describe the periodic groups whose endomorphism rings satisfy the annihilator condition for the principal left ideals generated by nilpotent elements. We prove that torsion-free reduced separable, vector, and algebraically compact groups have endomorphism rings with the annihilator condition for the principal left (right) ideals generated by nilpotent elements if and only if these rings are commutative. We show that the almost injective groups (in the sense of Harada) are injective, i.e. divisible.