Radicals of Skew Polynomial and Skew Laurent Polynomial Rings Over Skew Armendariz Rings

In this note we study radicals of skew polynomial ring R[x; α] and skew Laurent polynomial ring R[x, x ^?1; α], for a skew-Armendariz ring R. In particular, among the other results, we show that for an skew-Armendariz ring R, J(R[x; α]) = N ₀(R[x; α]) = Ni?_*(R)[x; α] and J(R[x, x ^?1; α]) = N ₀(R[x, x ^?1; α]) = Ni?_*(R)[x, x ^?1; α].     

Principally Quasi-Baer Skew Power Series Rings

Let α be an endomorphism of R which is not assumed to be surjective and R be α-compatible. It is shown that the skew power series ring R[[x; α]] is right p.q.-Baer if and only if the skew Laurent series ring R[[x, x ^?1; α]] is right p.q.-Baer if and only if R is right p.q.-Baer and every countable subset of right semicentral idempotents has a generalized countable join. Examples to illustrate and delimit the theory are provided.     

Ore Extensions of Quasi-Baer Rings

We first study the quasi-Baerness of R[x; σ, δ] over a quasi-Baer ring R when σ is an automorphism of R, obtaining an affirmative result. We next show that if R is a right principally quasi-Baer ring and σ is an automorphism of R with σ(e) = e for any left semicentral idempotent e ∈ R, then R[x; σ, δ] is right principally quasi-Baer. As a corollary, we have that R[x; δ] over a right principally quasi-Baer ring R is right principally quasi-Baer. Finally, we give conditions under which the quasi-Baernesses (right principal quasi-Baernesses) of R and R[x; σ, δ] are equivalent.     

On Skew Triangular Matrix Rings

For a ring R, endomorphism α of R and positive integer n we define a skew triangular matrix ring T _n (R, α). By using an ideal theory of a skew triangular matrix ring T _n (R, α) we can determine prime, primitive, maximal ideals and radicals of the ring R[x; α]/ ? x ⁿ  ?, for each positive integer n, where R[x; α] is the skew polynomial ring, and ? x ⁿ  ? is the ideal generated by x ⁿ .     

Goldie Conditions for Ore Extensions over Semiprime Rings

Let R be a ring, σ an injective endomorphism of R and δ a σ-derivation of R. We prove that if R is semiprime left Goldie then the same holds for the Ore extension R[x;σ,δ] and both rings have the same left uniform dimension. Presented by S. Montgomery Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 16S90. Jerzy Matczuk: Supported by the Flemish–Polish bilateral agreement BIL 01/31.     

On Skew Power Serieswise Armendariz Rings

For a ring endomorphism α, we introduce and investigate SPA-rings which are a generalization of α-rigid rings and determine the radicals of the skew polynomial rings R[x; α], R[x, x ^?1; α] and the skew power series rings R[[x; α]], R[[x, x ^?1; α]], in terms of those of R. We prove that several properties transfer between R and the extensions, in case R is an SPA-ring. We will construct various types of nonreduced SPA-rings and show SPA is a strictly stronger condition than α-rigid.     

Radicals of Ore Extension of Skew Armendariz Rings

Let R be a ring with an endomorphism α and an α-derivation δ. In this article, for a skew-Armendariz ring R we study some properties of skew polynomial ring R[x; α, δ]. In particular, among other results, we show that for an (α, δ)-compatible skew-Armendariz ring R, γ(R[x; α, δ]) = γ(R)[x; α, δ] = Ni?_*(R)[x; α, δ], where γ is a radical in the class of radicals which includes the Wedderburn, lower nil, Levitzky, and upper nil radicals. We also show that several properties, including the symmetric, reversible, ZC_n, zip, and 2-primal property, transfer between R and the skew polynomial ring R[x; α, δ], in case R is (α, δ)-compatible skew-Armendariz. As a consequence we extend and unify several known results.     

Armendariz Properties Relative to a Ring Endomorphism

For an endomorphism α of a ring R, we introduce the notion of an α-Armendariz ring to investigate the relative Armendariz properties. This concept extends the class of Armendariz rings and gives us an opportunity to study Armendariz rings in a general setting. It is obvious that every Armendariz ring is an α-Armendariz ring, but we shall give an example to show that there exists a right α-Armendariz ring which is not Armendariz. A number of properties of this version are established. It is shown that if I is a reduced ideal of a ring R such that R/I is a right α-Armendariz ring, then R is right α-Armendariz. For an endomorphism α of a ring R, we show that R is right α-Armendariz if and only if R[x] is right α-Armendariz. Moreover, a weak form of α-Armendariz rings is considered in the last section. We show that in general weak α-Armendariz rings need not be α-Armendariz.     

Weakly Special Classes of Semiprime Rings

This paper investigates closure properties possessed by certain classes of finite subdirect products of prime rings. If ℳ is a special class of prime rings then the class ℳ_∞ of all finite subdirect products of rings in ℳ is shown to be weakly special. A ring S is said to be a right tight extension [resp. tight extension] of a subring R if every nonzero right ideal [resp. right ideal and left ideal] of S meets R nontrivially. Every hereditary class of semiprime rings closed under tight extensions is weakly special. Each of the following conditions imposed on a semiprime ring yields a hereditary class closed under right tight extensions: ACC on right annihilators; finite right Goldie dimension; right Goldie. The class of all finite subdirect products of uniformly strongly prime rings is shown to be closed under tight extensions, answering a published question. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Rings radical over subrings

LetR be a ring with a subringA such that a power of every element ofR lies inA. The following results are proved: IfR has no nonzero nil right ideals, neither doesA; if moreoverR is prime,A is also prime. IfR is semiprime Goldie, so isA. IfA has no nonzero nilpotent elements, then the nilpotent elements ofR form an ideal. Finally ifR has no nil right ideals andA is Goldie, thenR is Goldie. This work was supported by the National Research Council of Brazil (CNPq) at the University of Chicago. The author wishes to express his gratitude to Professor I. N. Herstein for his advise and encouragement.     

A note on semiprime right Goldie rings

It is shown that a ring R is semiprime right Goldie if and only if R is right nonsingular and every nonsingular right R-module M has a direct decomposition M = I⊕N, where I is injective and N is a reduced module such that N does not contain any extending submodule of infinite Goldie dimension.     

Goldie Ranks of Skew Power Series Rings of Automorphic Type

Let A be a semprime, right noetherian ring equipped with an automorphism α, and let B: = A[[y; α]] denote the corresponding skew power series ring (which is also semiprime and right noetherian). We prove that the Goldie ranks of A and B are equal. We also record applications to induced ideals.     

On Skew Inverse Laurent-Serieswise Armendariz Rings

We study the skew inverse Laurent-serieswise Armendariz (or simply, SIL-Armendariz) condition on R, a generalization of the standard Armendariz condition from polynomials to skew inverse Laurent series. We study relations between the set of annihilators in R and the set of annihilators in R((x ^?1; α)). Among applications, we show that a number of interesting properties of a SIL-Armendariz ring R such as the Baer and the α-quasi Baer property transfer to its skew inverse Laurent series extensions R((x ^?1; α)) and vice versa. For an α-weakly rigid ring R, R((x ^?1; α)) is a left p.q.-Baer ring if and only if R is left p.q.-Baer and every countable subset of S _?(R) has a generalized countable join in R. Various types of examples of SIL-Armendariz rings is provided.     

Strongly compressible modules and semiprime right goldie rings

A module M _R is defined to be strongly compressible (or SC for short) if for every essential submodule N of M, there exists X ? E(M) such that M ? X ? N. We show that a ring R is semiprime right Goldie iff R _Ris SC module iff every right ideal of R is SC module iff every submodule of each progenerator of Mod-R is SC module. As corollaries of this result, we obtain some new module-theoretic characterizations of semiprime Goldie rings, prime (right) Goldie rings and Prüfer rings, etc., etc.,respectively. And the characterization theorem of semiprime Goldie rings of López-Permouth, Rizvi and Yousif by using weakly-injective modules can be regarded as a corollary of our results.     

On Rings Having McCoy-Like Conditions

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we study the behavior of the couniform (or dual Goldie) dimension of a module under various polynomial extensions. For a ring automorphism σ ∈ Aut(R), we use the notion of a σ-compatible module M _R to obtain results on the couniform dimension of the polynomial modules M[x], M[x ^?1], and M[x, x ^?1] over suitable skew extension rings.     

Rings Whose Modules Have Grade Zero

In this paper, we prove that R is a two-sided Artinian ring and J is a right annihilator ideal if and only if (i) for any nonzero right module, there is a nonzero linear map from it to a projective module; (ii) every submodule of RR is not a radical module for some right coherent rings. We call a ring a right X ring if Homa(M, R) = 0 for any right module M implies that M = 0. We can prove some left Goldie and right X rings are right Artinian rings. Moreover we characterize semisimple rings by using X rings. A famous Faith‘s conjecture is whether a semipimary PF ring is a QF ring. Similarly we study the relationship between X rings and QF and get many interesting results.