Torsion theoretic dimensions and relative Gabriel correspondence

Let τ be an hereditary torsion theory. For a ring with τ-Gabriel dimension, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a bijective correspondence between the τ-torsionfree injective modules and the τ-closed prime ideals. As an application, new characterizations of fully bounded noetherian rings are obtained.     

Generic noncommutative surfaces

We study a class of noncommutative surfaces, and their higher dimensional analogs, which come from generic subalgebras of twisted homogeneous coordinate rings of projective space. Such rings provide answers to several open questions in noncommutative projective geometry. Specifically, these rings R are the first known graded algebras over a field k which are noetherian but not strongly noetherian: in other words, R⊗_kB is not noetherian for some choice of commutative noetherian extension ring B. This answers a question of Artin, Small, and Zhang. The rings R are also maximal orders, but they do not satisfy all of the χ conditions of Artin and Zhang. In particular, they satisfy the χ₁ condition but not χ_i for i?2, answering a question of Stafford and Zhang and a question of Stafford and Van den Bergh. Finally, we show that the noncommutative scheme R-proj has finite global dimension.     

Weakly regular rings with ACC on annihilators and maximality of strongly prime ideals of weakly regular rings

Ramamurthi proved that weak regularity is equivalent to regularity and biregularity for left Artinian rings. We observe this result under a generalized condition. For a ring R satisfying the ACC on right annihilators, we actually prove that if R is left weakly regular then R is biregular, and that R is left weakly regular if and only if R is a direct sum of a finite number of simple rings. Next we study maximality of strongly prime ideals, showing that a reduced ring R is weakly regular if and only if R is left weakly regular if and only if R is left weakly π-regular if and only if every strongly prime ideal of R is maximal.     

Jacobson radical algebras with Gelfand-Kirillov dimension two over countable fields

It is shown that for every countable field K, there is a finitely generated graded Jacobson radical algebra over K of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension two. Examples of finitely generated Jacobson radical algebras of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension two over algebraic extensions of finite fields of characteristic 2 were earlier constructed by Bartholdi [L. Bartholdi, Branch Rings, thinned rings, tree enveloping rings, Israel J. Math. (in press)].     

On the Schröder–Bernstein property for modules

The well known Schröder–Bernstein Theorem states that any two sets with one to one maps into each other are isomorphic. The question of whether any two (subisomorphic or) direct summand subisomorphic algebraic structures are isomorphic, has long been of interest. Kaplansky asked whether direct summands subisomorphic abelian groups are always isomorphic? The question generated a great deal of interest. The study of this question for the general class of modules has been somewhat limited. We extend the study of this question for modules in this paper. We say that a module Msatisfies the Schröder–Bernstein property (S-B property) if any two direct summands of M which are subisomorphic to direct summands of each other, are isomorphic. We show that a large number of classes of modules satisfy the S-B property. These include the classes of quasi-continuous, directly finite, quasi-discrete and modules with ACC on direct summands. It is also shown that over a Noetherian ring R, every extending module satisfies the S-B property. Among applications, it is proved that the class of rings R for which every R-module satisfies the S-B property is precisely that of pure-semisimple rings. We show that over a commutative domain R, any two quasi-continuous subisomorphic R-modules are isomorphic if and only if R is a PID. We study other conditions related to the S-B property and obtain characterizations of certain classes of rings via those conditions. Examples which delimit and illustrate our results are provided.     

Graded polynomial identities and codimensions: Computing the exponential growth

Let G be a finite abelian group and A a G-graded algebra over a field of characteristic zero. This paper is devoted to a quantitative study of the graded polynomial identities satisfied by A. We study the asymptotic behavior of , n=1,2,…, the sequence of graded codimensions of A and we prove that if A satisfies an ordinary polynomial identity, exists and is an integer. We give an explicit way of computing such integer by proving that it equals the dimension of a suitable finite dimension semisimple G×Z₂-graded algebra related to A.     

Quasi-duo rings and stable range descent

In a recent paper, the first author introduced a general theory of corner rings in noncommutative rings that generalized the classical theory of Peirce decompositions. This theory is applied here to the study of the stable range of rings upon descent to corner rings. A ring is called quasi-duo if every maximal 1-sided ideal is 2-sided. Various new characterizations are obtained for such rings. Using some of these characterizations, we prove that, if a quasi-duo ring R has stable range ?n, the same is true for any semisplit corner ring of R. This contrasts with earlier results of Vaserstein and Warfield, which showed that the stable range can increase unboundedly upon descent to (even) Peirce corner rings.     

Radicals in skew polynomial and skew Laurent polynomial rings

We provide a general procedure for characterizing radical-like functions of skew polynomial and skew Laurent polynomial rings under grading hypotheses. In particular, we are able to completely characterize the Wedderburn and Levitzki radicals of skew polynomial and skew Laurent polynomial rings in terms of ideals in the coefficient ring. We also introduce the T-nilpotent radideals, and perform similar characterizations.     

Baer and Baer *-ring characterizations of Leavitt path algebras

We characterize Leavitt path algebras which are Rickart, Baer, and Baer ?-rings in terms of the properties of the underlying graph. In order to treat non-unital Leavitt path algebras as well, we generalize these annihilator-related properties to locally unital rings and provide a more general characterizations of Leavitt path algebras which are locally Rickart, locally Baer, and locally Baer ?-rings. Leavitt path algebras are also graded rings and we formulate the graded versions of these annihilator-related properties and characterize Leavitt path algebras having those properties as well.Our characterizations provide a quick way to generate a wide variety of examples of rings. For example, creating a Baer and not a Baer ?-ring, a Rickart ?-ring which is not Baer, or a Baer and not a Rickart ?-ring, is straightforward using the graph-theoretic properties from our results. In addition, our characterizations showcase more properties which distinguish behavior of Leavitt path algebras from their $C^{?}$-algebra counterparts. For example, while a graph $C^{?}$-algebra is Baer (and a Baer ?-ring) if and only if the underlying graph is finite and acyclic, a Leavitt path algebra is Baer if and only if the graph is finite and no cycle has an exit, and it is a Baer ?-ring if and only if the graph is a finite disjoint union of graphs which are finite and acyclic or loops.     

Strongly clean matrix rings over commutative local rings

We will completely characterize the commutative local rings for which M_n(R) is strongly clean, in terms of factorization in R[t]. We also obtain similar elementwise results which show additionally that for any monic polynomial f∈R[t], the strong cleanness of the companion matrix of f is equivalent to the strong cleanness of all matrices with characteristic polynomial f.     

Frobenius–Perron theory of modified ADE bound quiver algebras

The Frobenius–Perron dimension for an abelian category was recently introduced in [5]. We apply this theory to the category of representations of the finite-dimensional radical square zero algebras associated to certain modified ADE graphs. In particular, we take an ADE quiver with arrows in a certain orientation and an arbitrary number of loops at each vertex. We show that the Frobenius–Perron dimension of this category is equal to the maximum number of loops at a vertex. Along the way, we introduce a result which can be applied in general to calculate the Frobenius–Perron dimension of a radical square zero bound quiver algebra. We use this result to introduce a family of abelian categories which produce arbitrarily large irrational Frobenius–Perron dimensions.     

Co-Frobenius corings and adjoint functors

We study co-Frobenius and more generally quasi-co-Frobenius corings over arbitrary base rings and over PF base rings in particular. We generalize some results about co-Frobenius and quasi-co-Frobenius coalgebras to the case of non-commutative base rings and give several new characterizations for co-Frobenius and more generally quasi-co-Frobenius corings, some of them are new even in the coalgebra situation. We construct Morita contexts to study Frobenius properties of corings and a second kind of Morita contexts to study adjoint pairs. Comparing both Morita contexts, we obtain our main result that characterizes quasi-co-Frobenius corings in terms of a pair of adjoint functors (F,G) such that (G,F) is locally quasi-adjoint in a sense defined in this note.     

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.     

Automorphism groups of generalized triangular matrix rings

We call a ring strongly indecomposable if it cannot be represented as a non-trivial (i.e. M≠0) generalized triangular matrix ring , for some rings R and S and some R-S-bimodule _RM_S. Examples of such rings include rings with only the trivial idempotents 0 and 1, as well as endomorphism rings of vector spaces, or more generally, semiprime indecomposable rings. We show that if R and S are strongly indecomposable rings, then the triangulation of the non-trivial generalized triangular matrix ring is unique up to isomorphism; to be more precise, if is an isomorphism, then there are isomorphisms ρ:R→R^′ and ψ:S→S^′ such that χ:=φ_∣M:M→M^′ is an R-S-bimodule isomorphism relative to ρ and ψ. In particular, this result describes the automorphism groups of such upper triangular matrix rings      

Generalizations of von Neumann regular rings, <Emphasis Type="Italic">PP</Emphasis> rings,and Baer rings

We introduce the notions of IDS modules, IP modules, and Baer* modules, which are new generalizations of von Neumann regular rings, PP rings, and Baer rings, respectively, in a general module theoretic setting. We obtain some characterizations and properties of IDS modules, IP modules and Baer* modules. Some important classes of rings are characterized in terms of IDS modules, IP modules, and Baer* modules.     

Igusa–Todorov functions for Artin algebras

In this paper we study the behavior of the Igusa–Todorov functions for Artin algebras A with finite injective dimension, and Gorenstein algebras as a particular case. We show that the ?-dimension and ψ-dimension are finite in both cases. Also we prove that monomial, gentle and cluster tilted algebras have finite ?-dimension and finite ψ-dimension.     

On the Behrens radical of matrix rings and polynomial rings

It is shown that the Behrens radical of a polynomial ring, in either commuting or non-commuting indeterminates, has the form of “polynomials over an ideal”. Moreover, in the case of non-commuting indeterminates, for a given coefficient ring, the ideal does not depend on the cardinality of the set of indeterminates. However, in contrast to the Brown-McCoy radical, it can happen that the polynomial ring R[X] in an infinite set X of commuting indeterminates over a ring R is Behrens radical while the polynomial ring R〈X〉 in an infinite set Y of non-commuting indeterminates over R is not Behrens radical. This is connected with the fact that the matrix rings over Behrens radical rings need not be Behrens radical. The class of Behrens radical rings, which is closed under taking matrix rings, is described.     

Rings and semigroups with permutable zero products

We consider rings R, not necessarily with 1, for which there is a nontrivial permutation σ on n letters such that x₁?x_n=0 implies x_σ(1)?x_σ(n)=0 for all x₁,…,x_n∈R. We prove that this condition alone implies very strong permutability conditions for zero products with sufficiently many factors. To this end we study the infinite sequences of permutation groups P_n(R) consisting of those permutations σ on n letters for which the condition above is satisfied in R. We give the full characterization of such sequences both for rings and for semigroups with 0. This enables us to generalize some recent results by Cohn on reversible rings and by Lambek, Anderson and Camillo on rings and semigroups whose zero products commute. In particular, we prove that rings with permutable zero products satisfy the Köthe conjecture.     

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.     

ON SOME PROPERTIES OF IF RINGS

Abstract

We show that left IF rings (rings such that every injective left module is flat) have certain regular-like properties. For instance, we prove that every left IF reduced ring is strongly regular. We also give characterizations of (left and right) IF rings. In particular, we show that a ring R is IF if and only if every finitely generated left (and right) ideal is the annihilator of a finite subset of R.