On morphisms of commutative monoids

The aim of this work is to study monoid morphisms between commutative monoids. Algorithms to check if a monoid morphism between two finitely generated monoids is injective and/or surjective are given. The structure of the set of monoid morphisms between a monoid and a cancellative monoid is also studied and an algorithm to obtain a system of generators of this set is provided.     

On divided commutative rings

Let R be a commutative ring with identity having total quotient ring T. A prime ideal P of R is called divided if P is comparable to every principal ideal of R. If every prime ideal of R is divided, then R is called a divided ring. If P is a nonprincipal divided prime, then P^-1 = { x ? T : xP ? P} is a ring. We show that if R is an atomic domain and divided, then the Krull dimension of R ≤ 1. Also, we show that if a finitely generated prime ideal containing a nonzerodivisor of a ring R is divided, then it is maximal and R is quasilocal.     

On free commutative regular rings

It has been observed that the category of all regular rings, when viewed as a full subcategory of the category of all rings, is not an algebraic variety. However if a regular ring is viewed as a ring equipped with a unary operation q such that xx^qx = x and 0000^q= 0, then the category of all rings with this added structure is indeed a variety but it is not, in any natural way, a subcategory of the category of all rings. In this article regular rings are viewed in this way and the free commutative regular rings are constructed. They are derived from the universal commutative regular ring associated with certain polynomial rings.     

On semivalues on commutative rings

The notion of a semivalue on an arbitrary unitary commutative ring is introduced, and two fundamental theorems concerning values on fields are extended to this general context.     

Additive cyclic codes over finite commutative chain rings

Additive cyclic codes over Galois rings were investigated in Cao et al. (2015). In this paper, we investigate the same problem but over a more general ring family, finite commutative chain rings. When we focus on non-Galois finite commutative chain rings, we observe two different kinds of additivity. One of them is a natural generalization of the study in Cao et al. (2015), whereas the other one has some unusual properties especially while constructing dual codes. We interpret the reasons of such properties and illustrate our results giving concrete examples.     

On Barbilian domains over commutative rings

W. LEISSNER proved in [2] that an arbitrarily given affine BARBILIAN PLANE must be isomorphic to a plane affine geometry over a Z-ring R and moreover did he establish the converse theorem among other results in [3]. One of the fundamental notions in this axiomatic approach of ring geometry is that of a BARBILIAN DOMAIN (BARBILIANBEREICH). The aim of our note is to present sufficient conditions in case of commutative rings R which guarantee that R admits exactly one BARBILIAN DOMAIN. If for instance R is an euclidean ring, then R admits exactly one BARBILIAN DOMAIN (P.M.COHN [1], corollary to Theorem 3 of our note).The author is indebted to Professor LEISSNER for several helpful discussions during the preparation of this note.     

Notes on linear codes over finite commutative chain rings

The properties of the generator matrix are given for linear codes over finite commutative chain rings,and the so-called almost-MDS (AMDS) codes are studied.     

On maximal commutative subrings of non-commutative rings

We observe that every non-commutative unital ring has at least three maximal commutative subrings. In particular, non-commutative rings (resp., finite non-commutative rings) in which there are exactly three (resp., four) maximal commutative subrings are characterized. If R has acc or dcc on its commutative subrings containing the center, whose intersection with the nontrivial summands is trivial, then R is Dedekind-finite. It is observed that every Artinian commutative ring R, is a finite intersection of some Artinian commutative subrings of a non-commutative ring, in each of which, R is a maximal subring. The intersection of maximal ideals of all the maximal commutative subrings in a non-commutative local ring R, is a maximal ideal in the center of R. A ring R with no nontrivial idempotents, is either a division ring or a right ue-ring (i.e., a ring with a unique proper essential right ideal) if and only if every maximal commutative subring of R is either a field or a ue-ring whose socle is the contraction of that of R. It is proved that a maximal commutative subring of a duo ue-ring with finite uniform dimension is a finite direct product of rings, all of which are fields, except possibly one, which is a local ring whose unique maximal ideal is of square zero. Analogues of Jordan-Hölder Theorem (resp., of the existence of the Loewy chain for Artinian modules) is proved for rings with acc and dcc (resp., with dcc) on commutative subrings containing the center. A semiprime ring R has only finitely many maximal commutative subrings if and only if R has a maximal commutative subring of finite index. Infinite prime rings have infinitely many maximal commutative subrings.     

On when commutative noetherian rings are slender

A commutative noetherian ring R is slender if and only if Soc(R) [d] 0 and R is not complete.     

On idempotents of a class of commutative rings

Abstract

In the present work, a procedure for determining idempotents of a commutative ring having a sequence of ideals with certain properties is presented. As an application of this procedure, idempotent elements of various commutative rings are determined. Several examples are included illustrating the main results.