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Nilpotent Ideals in Alternative Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michael Rich
Michael Rich*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Temple University College of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 19122
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It is well known and immediate that in an associative ring a nilpotent one-sided ideal generates a nilpotent two-sided ideal. The corresponding open question for alternative rings was raised by M. Slater [6, p. 476]. Hitherto the question has been answered only in the case of a trivial one-sided ideal J (i.e., in case J2 = 0) [5]. In this note we solve the question in its entirety by showing that a nilpotent one-sided ideal K of an alternative ring generates a nilpotent two-sided ideal. In the process we find an upper bound for the index of nilpotency of the ideal generated. The main theorem provides another proof of the fact that a semiprime alternative ring contains no nilpotent one-sided ideals. Finally we note the analogous result for locally nilpotent one-sided ideals.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1980 , pp. 299 - 303
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1980

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