Periodic jordan rings and order structure

The aim of this paper is to obtain information about a periodic Jordan ring by using only properties of its idempotent elements. Osborn proves that a power-associative periodic ring having only one nonzero idempotent element is a division ring. so associative. He also proves that a periodic Jordan ring is a subdirect product of simple periodic Jordan rings and that a simple periodic Jordan ring is either a periodic field or a Jordan ring of capacity 2. Using these results we obtain some necessary and suficient conditions for a periodic Jordan ring to be associative, and these conditions are only given in terms of the idempotent elements. We also characterize the periodic Jordan ring which are a direct product of periodic fields and simple periodic Jordan rings of capacity two.