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Can a Semi-Prime Ring be a Finite Union of Right Annihilators?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charles Lanski
Charles Lanski*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1113
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Abstract

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The interesting question of the title was posed by J. Bergen and this note answers it in the negative. The main result characterizes rings which can be a finite union of proper right annihilators, and shows that any such commutative ring must have a total annihilator.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1990 , pp. 126 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1990

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