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On prime rings with commuting nilpotent elements

Author(s): M. Chebotar; P.-H. Lee; E. R. Puczyłowski
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2899-2903.
MSC (2000): Primary 16N60; Secondary 16N40
Posted: March 30, 2009
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Abstract: Let $ R$ be a prime ring in which the nilpotent elements commute. If $ R$ has finite right uniform dimension or its maximal right quotient ring is Dedekind finite, then $ R$ contains no nonzero nilpotent elements.


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Additional Information:

M. Chebotar
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
Email: chebotar@math.kent.edu

P.-H. Lee
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University - and - National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei Office, Taipei, Taiwan
Email: phlee@math.ntu.edu.tw

E. R. Puczyłowski
Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2, Warsaw, Poland
Email: edmundp@mimuw.edu.pl

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09894-3
PII: S 0002-9939(09)09894-3
Keywords: Prime ring, maximal right quotient ring, nilpotent element
Received by editor(s): December 8, 2008
Posted: March 30, 2009
Additional Notes: The third author was supported in part by MNiSW Grant Nr N N201 268435
Communicated by: Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


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