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Primitive skew Laurent polynomial rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

D. A. Jordan
D. A. Jordan
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN
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In [8] the author studied the question of the primitivity of an Ore extension R[x, δ], where δ is a derivation of the ring R. If a is an automorphism of R then it can be shown that R[x, α] is primitive if the following conditions are satisfied: (i) no power αsS ≥ 1, of α is inner; (ii) the only ideals of R invariant under α are 0 and R. These conditions are also known to be necessary and sufficient for the skew Laurent polynomial ring R[x, x−1, α] to be simple [9]. The object of this paper is to find conditions which are sufficient for R[x, x−1, α] to be primitive. The results obtained are remarkably similar to those of [8]. Two logically independent conditions are each found to be sufficient for the primitivity of R[x, x−1, α]. Of these, one is also shown to be sufficient for R[x, α] to be primitive. Included in the examples illustrating these results are some applications to the theory of primitive group rings. The basic techniques involved are also applied to produce a counterexample to the converse of a theorem of Goldie and Michler [3] on when R[x, x−1, α] is a Jacobson ring.

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 79 - 85
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1978

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