Primitivity of prime countable-dimensional regular algebras
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Abstract:
Let $k$ be a field and let $R$ be a countable-dimensional prime von Neumann regular $k$-algebra. We show that $R$ is primitive, answering a special case of a question of Kaplansky.References
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Additional Information
- Pere Ara
- Affiliation: Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- MR Author ID: 206418
- Email: para@mat.uab.cat
- Jason P. Bell
- Affiliation: Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- MR Author ID: 632303
- Email: jpbell@uwaterloo.ca
- Received by editor(s): September 11, 2013
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 15, 2013, and November 18, 2013
- Published electronically: March 11, 2015
- Additional Notes: The first-named author was partially supported by DGI MINECO MTM2011-28992-C02-01, by FEDER UNAB10-4E-378 “Una manera de hacer Europa”, and by the Comissionat per Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya
The second-named author was supported by NSERC grant 31-611456 - Communicated by: Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann
- © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), 2759-2766
- MSC (2010): Primary 16E50; Secondary 16D60, 16N60
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2015-12434-3
- MathSciNet review: 3336601