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Radical Of A Ring
In ring theory, a branch of mathematics, a radical of a ring is an ideal of "not-good" elements of the ring. The first example of a radical was the nilradical introduced by , based on a suggestion of . In the next few years several other radicals were discovered, of which the most important example is the Jacobson radical. The general theory of radicals was defined independently by and . The study of radicals is called torsion theory. Definitions In the theory of radicals, rings are usually assumed to be associative, but need not be commutative and need not have a multiplicative identity. In particular, every ideal in a ring is also a ring. Let \mathfrak be a class of rings which is: # closed under homomorphic images. That is, for all rings A, B \in \mathfrak and any ring homomorphism f: A \rightarrow B (which may fail to preserve any left- or right-identities) then the image of f is in \mathfrak # closed under taking ideals (for all rings A \in \mathfrak, and I is an ...
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Preimage
In mathematics, for a function f: X \to Y, the image of an input value x is the single output value produced by f when passed x. The preimage of an output value y is the set of input values that produce y. More generally, evaluating f at each element of a given subset A of its domain X produces a set, called the "image of A under (or through) f". Similarly, the inverse image (or preimage) of a given subset B of the codomain Y is the set of all elements of X that map to a member of B. The image of the function f is the set of all output values it may produce, that is, the image of X. The preimage of f is the preimage of the codomain Y. Because it always equals X (the domain of f), it is rarely used. Image and inverse image may also be defined for general binary relations, not just functions. Definition The word "image" is used in three related ways. In these definitions, f : X \to Y is a function from the set X to the set Y. Image of an element If x is a member of X, ...
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Noetherian Ring
In mathematics, a Noetherian ring is a ring that satisfies the ascending chain condition on left and right ideals. If the chain condition is satisfied only for left ideals or for right ideals, then the ring is said left-Noetherian or right-Noetherian respectively. Formally, every increasing sequence I_1\subseteq I_2 \subseteq I_3 \subseteq \cdots of left (or right) ideals has a largest element; that is, there exists an n such that I_=I_=\cdots. Equivalently, a ring is left-Noetherian (respectively right-Noetherian) if every left ideal (respectively right-ideal) is finitely generated. A ring is Noetherian if it is both left- and right-Noetherian. Noetherian rings are fundamental in both commutative and noncommutative ring theory since many rings that are encountered in mathematics are Noetherian (in particular the ring of integers, polynomial rings, and rings of algebraic integers in number fields), and many general theorems on rings rely heavily on the Noetherian property ( ...
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Singular Submodule
In the branches of abstract algebra known as ring theory and module theory, each right (resp. left) ''M'' has a singular submodule consisting of elements whose annihilators are essential right (resp. left) ideals in ''R''. In set notation it is usually denoted as \mathcal(M) = \\,. For general rings, \mathcal(M) is a good generalization of the torsion submodule tors(''M'') which is most often defined for domains. In the case that ''R'' is a commutative domain, \operatorname(M) = \mathcal(M). If ''R'' is any ring, \mathcal(R_R) is defined considering ''R'' as a right module, and in this case \mathcal(R_R) is a two-sided ideal of ''R'' called the right singular ideal of ''R''. The left handed analogue \mathcal(_R R) is defined similarly. It is possible for \mathcal(R_R) \neq \mathcal(_R R). Definitions Here are several definitions used when studying singular submodules and singular ideals. In the following, ''M'' is an ''R''-module: *''M'' is called a singular module if \math ...
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Essential Submodule
In mathematics, specifically module theory, given a ring ''R'' and an ''R''- module ''M'' with a submodule ''N'', the module ''M'' is said to be an essential extension of ''N'' (or ''N'' is said to be an essential submodule or large submodule of ''M'') if for every submodule ''H'' of ''M'', :H\cap N=\\, implies that H=\\, As a special case, an essential left ideal of ''R'' is a left ideal that is essential as a submodule of the left module ''R''''R''. The left ideal has non-zero intersection with any non-zero left ideal of ''R''. Analogously, an essential right ideal is exactly an essential submodule of the right ''R'' module ''R''''R''. The usual notations for essential extensions include the following two expressions: :N\subseteq_e M\, , and N\trianglelefteq M The dual notion of an essential submodule is that of superfluous submodule (or small submodule). A submodule ''N'' is superfluous if for any other submodule ''H'', :N+H=M\, implies that H=M\,. The usual notations for ...
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Non-commutative Ring
In mathematics, a noncommutative ring is a ring whose multiplication is not commutative; that is, there exist ''a'' and ''b'' in the ring such that ''ab'' and ''ba'' are different. Equivalently, a ''noncommutative ring'' is a ring that is not a commutative ring. Noncommutative algebra is the part of ring theory devoted to study of properties of the noncommutative rings, including the properties that apply also to commutative rings. Sometimes the term ''noncommutative ring'' is used instead of ''ring'' to refer to an unspecified ring which is not necessarily commutative, and hence may be commutative. Generally, this is for emphasizing that the studied properties are not restricted to commutative rings, as, in many contexts, ''ring'' is used as a shorthand for ''commutative ring''. Although some authors do not assume that rings have a multiplicative identity, in this article we make that assumption unless stated otherwise. Examples Some examples of noncommutative rings: * The ...
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Radical Of An Ideal
Radical (from Latin: ', root) may refer to: Politics and ideology Politics * Classical radicalism, the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and Latin America in the 19th century * Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change * Radical Party (other), several political parties *Radicals (UK), a British and Irish grouping in the early to mid-19th century * Radicalization *Politicians from the Radical Civic Union Ideologies * Radical chic, a term coined by Tom Wolfe to describe the pretentious adoption of radical causes * Radical feminism, a perspective within feminism that focuses on patriarchy * Radical Islam, or Islamic extremism * Radical Christianity * Radical veganism, a radical interpretation of veganism, usually combined with anarchism * Radical Reformation, an Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation Science and mathematics Science * Radical (chemistry), an atom, molec ...
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Nil Ideal
In mathematics, more specifically ring theory, a left, right or two-sided ideal of a ring is said to be a nil ideal if all of its elements is nilpotent, i.e for each a \in I exists natural number ''n'' for which a^n = 0. If all elements of a ring is nilpotent (this is possible only for rings without a unit), then the ring is called a nil ring. , p. 194 The nilradical of a commutative ring is an example of a nil ideal; in fact, it is the ideal of the ring maximal with respect to the property of being nil. Unfortunately the set of nilpotent elements does not always form an ideal for noncommutative rings. Nil ideals are still associated with interesting open questions, especially the unsolved Köthe conjecture. Commutative rings In commutative rings, the nil ideals are better understood than in noncommutative rings, primarily because in commutative rings, products involving nilpotent elements and sums of nilpotent elements are both nilpotent. This is because if ''a'' and ''b'' a ...
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Nilpotent
In mathematics, an element x of a ring (mathematics), ring R is called nilpotent if there exists some positive integer n, called the index (or sometimes the degree), such that x^n=0. The term, along with its sister Idempotent (ring theory), idempotent, was introduced by Benjamin Peirce in the context of his work on the classification of algebras. Examples *This definition can be applied in particular to square matrix, square matrices. The matrix :: A = \begin 0 & 1 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 1\\ 0 & 0 & 0 \end :is nilpotent because A^3=0. See nilpotent matrix for more. * In the factor ring \Z/9\Z, the equivalence class of 3 is nilpotent because 32 is Congruence relation, congruent to 0 Modular arithmetic, modulo 9. * Assume that two elements a and b in a ring R satisfy ab=0. Then the element c=ba is nilpotent as \beginc^2&=(ba)^2\\ &=b(ab)a\\ &=0.\\ \end An example with matrices (for ''a'', ''b''):A = \begin 0 & 1\\ 0 & 1 \end, \;\; B =\begin 0 & 1\\ ...
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Semiprime Ideal
In ring theory, a branch of mathematics, semiprime ideals and semiprime rings are generalizations of prime ideals and prime rings. In commutative algebra, semiprime ideals are also called radical ideals and semiprime rings are the same as reduced rings. For example, in the ring of integers, the semiprime ideals are the zero ideal, along with those ideals of the form n\mathbb Z where ''n'' is a square-free integer. So, 30\mathbb Z is a semiprime ideal of the integers (because 30 = 2 × 3 × 5, with no repeated prime factors), but 12\mathbb Z\, is not (because 12 = 22 × 3, with a repeated prime factor). The class of semiprime rings includes semiprimitive rings, prime rings and reduced rings. Most definitions and assertions in this article appear in and . Definitions For a commutative ring ''R'', a proper ideal ''A'' is a semiprime ideal if ''A'' satisfies either of the following equivalent conditions: * If ''x''''k'' is in ''A'' for some positive integer ''k'' and element ''x ...
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Prime Ideal
In algebra, a prime ideal is a subset of a ring (mathematics), ring that shares many important properties of a prime number in the ring of Integer#Algebraic properties, integers. The prime ideals for the integers are the sets that contain all the multiple (mathematics), multiples of a given prime number, together with the zero ideal. Primitive ideals are prime, and prime ideals are both primary ideal, primary and semiprime ideal, semiprime. Prime ideals for commutative rings Definition An ideal (ring theory), ideal of a commutative ring is prime if it has the following two properties: * If and are two elements of such that their product is an element of , then is in or is in , * is not the whole ring . This generalizes the following property of prime numbers, known as Euclid's lemma: if is a prime number and if divides a product of two integers, then divides or divides . We can therefore say :A positive integer is a prime number if and only if n\Z is a prime ...
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