Classifying subcategories of modules over a commutative noetherian ring

Let R be a quotient ring of a commutative coherent regular ringby a finitely generated ideal. Hovey gave a bijection betweenthe set of coherent subcategories of the category of finitelypresented R-modules and the set of thick subcategories of thederived category of perfect R-complexes. Using this bijection,he proved that every coherent subcategory of finitely presentedR-modules is a Serre subcategory. In this paper, it is provedthat this holds whenever R is a commutative noetherian ring.This paper also yields a module version of the bijection betweenthe set of localizing subcategories of the derived categoryof R-modules and the set of subsets of Spec R which was givenby Neeman.     

Curves in Grothendieck Categories

Noncommutative projective geometry studies noncommutative graded rings by replacing the variety by a suitable Grothendieck category. One way of studying the resulting category is to examine the full subcategories which behave like curves on a commutative variety. Smith and Zhang initiated such a study by considering the subcategory generated by a particular type of module they called a pure curve module in good position. This paper generalizes their construction by allowing more general modules. The resulting category is shown to be categorically equivalent to a quotient of the category of graded modules over a graded ring. In the course of defining the category equivalence, several dimensions, including projective, injective and Krull dimensions, are calculated. In particular, this extension allows examination of the category created from a line module over more general AS-regular rings than those considered by Smith and Zhang. For instance, suppose that C is a generic line module over R _d , Stafford's Sklyanin-like algebra. Let C denote the category C generates. Then C is equivalent to the category of graded k[x, y]/(x ² – y ²) modules under the Z × Z/2Z-grading where deg(x) = (–1, 0) and deg(y) = (–1,1).     

FINITE RINGS WITH COMMUTING NILPOTENT ELEMENTS

As a generalization of Wedderburn's theorem, Herstein [5] proved that a finite ring R is commutative, if all nilpotent elements are contained in the center of R. However a finite ring with commuting nilpotent elements is not necessarily commutative. Recently, in [9] and [10], Simons described the structure of finite rings R with J(R)² = 0 in a variety with definable principal congruences. In this paper, we will consider the difference between the finite commutative rings and the finite rings in which any two nilpotent elements commute with each other. As a consequence, we describe the structure of finite rings R with [J(R), J(R)] = 0 in a variety with definable principal congruences.     

Commutativity Conditions for Rings and Generalized 2-CN Rings

Firstly,the commutativity of rings is investigated in this paper.Let R be a ring with identity.Then we obtain the following commutativity conditions: (1) if for each x ∈ R\N(R) and each y ∈ R,(xy)k =xkyk for k =m,m + 1,n,n + 1,where m and n are relatively prime positive integers,then R is commutative;(2) if for each x ∈ R\J(R) and each y ∈ R,(xy)k =ykxk for k =m,m+ 1,m+2,where m is a positive integer,then R is commutative.Secondly,generalized 2-CN rings,a kind of ring being commutative to some extent,are investigated.Some relations between generalized 2-CN rings and other kinds of rings,such as reduced rings,regular rings,2-good rings,and weakly Abel rings,are presented.     

V-Categories: Applications to Graded Rings

Motivated by the study of V-rings, we introduce the concept of V-category, as a Grothendieck category with the property that any simple object is injective. We present basic properties of V-categories, and we study this concept in the special case of locally finitely generated categories, for instance the category R-gr of all graded left R-modules, where R is a graded ring. We use the characterizations of V-categories in the study of graded V-rings. Since V-rings are closely related to Von Neumann regular rings (in the commutative case these classes of rings coincide), the last part of the article is devoted to graded regular rings.     

Ideal-Symmetric and Semiprime Rings

Lambek extended the usual commutative ideal theory to ideals in noncommutative rings, calling an ideal A of a ring R symmetric if rst ∈ A implies rts ∈ A for r, s, t ∈ R. R is usually called symmetric if 0 is a symmetric ideal. This naturally gives rise to extending the study of symmetric ring property to the lattice of ideals. In the process, we introduce the concept of an ideal-symmetric ring. We first characterize the class of ideal-symmetric rings and show that this ideal-symmetric property is Morita invariant. We provide a method of constructing an ideal-symmetric ring (but not semiprime) from any given semiprime ring, noting that semiprime rings are ideal-symmetric. We investigate the structure of minimal ideal-symmetric rings completely, finding two kinds of basic forms of finite ideal-symmetric rings. It is also shown that the ideal-symmetric property can go up to right quotient rings in relation with regular elements. The polynomial ring R[x] over an ideal-symmetric ring R need not be ideal-symmetric, but it is shown that the factor ring R[x]/xⁿR[x] is ideal-symmetric over a semiprime ring R.     

Injective Rings

The purpose of this article is to determine the injective objects in some complete categories of rings. All rings are assumed to have identities and it is assumed that the homomorphisms preserve these identities. We recall that an object Q in a category is called injective if for every diagram where A′ → A is a monomorphism, there is a map A → Q making the triangle commute. The zero ring belongs to all the categories discussed and it is easy to see that it is an injective object. For the categories of commutative rings, strongly regular and commutative regular rings we show that the zero ring is the only injective by using the fact that an injective object must be a retract of any extension. We include in this section the known results which characterize the injective rings and p-rings. The second part of the paper discusses injectivity with respect to regular monomorphisms. Some necessary categorical background is given and it is then shown that results analagous with those of the first section hold (including the known Boolean and p-ring cases). In an abelian category all monomorphisms are regular, so in the study of the injective objects, for example injective modules, there are not two separate cases.     

Clifford semigroups as functors and their cohomology

We prove that the category of Clifford semigroups and prehomomorphisms CSP\mathcal{CSP} is isomorphic to a certain subcategory of the category of diagrams over groups. Under this isomorphism, Clifford semigroups are identified with certain functors. As an application of the isomorphism theorem, we show that the category with objects commutative inverse semigroups having the same semilattice of idempotents and with morphisms, the inverse semigroup homomorphisms that fix the semilattice, imbeds into a category of right modules over a certain ring. Also we find a very close relationship between the cohomology groups of a commutative inverse monoid and the cohomology groups of the colimit group of the functor giving the monoid.     

The Zero-Divisor Graphs Which Are Uniquely Determined By Neighborhoods

A nonempty simple connected graph G is called a uniquely determined graph, if distinct vertices of G have distinct neighborhoods. We prove that if R is a commutative ring, then Γ(R) is uniquely determined if and only if either R is a Boolean ring or T(R) is a local ring with x² = 0 for any x ∈ Z(R), where T(R) is the total quotient ring of R. We determine all the corresponding rings with characteristic p for any finite complete graph, and in particular, give all the corresponding rings of K_n if n + 1 = p^q for some primes p, q. Finally, we show that a graph G with more than two vertices has a unique corresponding zero-divisor semigroup if G is a zero-divisor graph of some Boolean ring.     

Clean Semiprime f-Rings with Bounded Inversion

Abstract

An element in a ring is called clean if it may be written as a sum of a unit and idempotent. The ring itself is called clean if every element is clean. Recently,Anderson and Camillo (Anderson,D. D.,Camillo,V. (2002). Commutative rings whose elements are a sum of a unit and an idempotent. Comm. Algebra 30(7):3327–3336) has shown that for commutative rings every von-Neumann regular ring as well as zero-dimensional rings are clean. Moreover,every clean ring is a pm-ring,that is every prime ideal is contained in a unique maximal ideal. In the same article,the authors give an example of a commutative ring which is a pm-ring yet not clean,e.g.,C(?). It is this example which interests us. Our discussion shall take place in a more general setting. We assume that all rings are commutative with 1.     

Posner and herstein theorems for derivations of 3-prime near-rings

The analog of Posner's theorem on the composition of two derivations in prime rings is proved for 3-prime near-rings. It is shown that if d is a nonzero derivation of a 2-torsionfree 3-prime near-ring N and an element a ? N is such that ax^d = x^da for all x ? N, then a is a central element. As a consequence it is shown that if d\ and d₂ are nonzero derivations of a 2-torsionfree 3-prime near-ring N and x^d1y^d2 = y^d2x^d1 for all x, y ? N, then N is a commutative ring. Thus two theorems of Herstein are generalized     

On structure and commutativity of certain periodic near rings

In the present paper we first establish decomposition theorems for near rings satisfying either of the properties xy = x^my^pxⁿ or xy = y^mx^pyⁿ, where m≥1, n≥1, p≥1 are positive integers depending on the pair of near ring elements x,y; and further, we investigate commutativity of such near rings. Moreover, it is also shown that under some additional hypotheses, such nearrings turn out to be commutative rings.     

On Generalizations of Commutativity

This note is concerned with generalizations of commutativity. We introduce identity-symmetric and right near-commutative, and study basic structures of rings with such ring properties. It is shown that if R is an identity-symmetric ring, then the set of all nilpotent elements forms a commutative subring of R. Moreover, identity-symmetric regular rings are proved to be commutative. The near-commutativity is shown to be not left-right symmetric, and we study some conditions under which the near-commutativity is left-right symmetric. We also examine the near-commutativity of skew-trivial extensions, which has a role in this note.     

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.     

The structure of commutative rings with monomorphic flat envelopes

It is obvious that OF and Von Neumann regular rings have monomorphic flat envelopes. In this paper we completely describe the structure,in terms of OF and Von Neumann regular rings, of those commutative rings all of whose modules have a monomorphic flat envelope (m.f.e. ). For that, we introduce the notion of locally QF ring with m.f.e., whose structure is given in terms of OF rings. It turns out that a commutative ring R with m.f.e. is characterized as a (essential) subdirect product of a locally QF ring with m.f.e. and a Von Neumann regular ring, with the latter flat as an R-module.     

Regular closure

Regular closure is an operation performed on submodules of arbitrary modules over a commutative Noetherian ring. The regular closure contains the tight closure when both are defined, but in general, the regular closure is strictly larger. Regular closure is interesting, in part, because it is defined a priori in all characteristics, including mixed characteristic. We show that one can test regular closure in a Noetherian ring by considering only local maps to regular local rings. In certain cases, it is necessary only to consider maps to certain affine algebras. We also prove the equivalence of two variants of regular closure for a class of rings that includes .

     

On the Witt ring and some arithmetical invariants of quadratic forms

The Witt ring of a field serves as an effective medium to study certain arithmetical invariants of quadratic forms, such as: s = the Stufe (the least number of summands to represent ?1 as a sum of squares), q = the number of square classes, u = the maximal anisotropic dimension of a quadratic form over the given field, and h = the height (the minimal 2-power that kills the torsion subgroup of the Witt group). These invariants may also be defined over commutative rings. This paper discusses these invariants and extend the investigations to some commutative rings, e.g. valuation rings, connected semilocal rings, Prüfer rings.     

On the Left Perpendicular Category of the Modules of Finite Projective Dimension

In this article, we characterize several properties of commutative noetherian local rings in terms of the left perpendicular category of the category of finitely generated modules of finite projective dimension. As an application, we prove that a local ring is regular if (and only if) there exists a strong test module for projectivity having finite projective dimension. We also obtain corresponding results with respect to a semidualizing module.     

Commutativity of One Sided S- Unital Rings

In the present paper we extend some commutativity theorems for rings as follows: Let m > 1, n and k be fixed non- negative integers, and let R be a left or right s- unital ring satisfying the polynomial identity [xⁿ]y ? y^mx^k,x] = 0. Then R is commutative. Under appropriate conditions the commutativity of R has also been proved for the case m = 1.     

A generalization of anti-commutative rings arising from 2-varieties

Let Rbe a nonassociative ring of characteristic not 2 or 3 which satisfies the identities (ab=ba) = (ac+ca)b, a(ac+ca) = b(ac+ca) and a²a = aa². We show that these rings are characterized as associative commutative rings with a type of biadditive mapping. From this characterization we show easily that simple rings are associative-commutative, or anti-commutative. Among the examples given, is a finite dimensional algebra which is solvable but not nilpotent.