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Residually Finite Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kim Lin Chew  and
Sherry Lawn
Kim Lin Chew
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Sherry Lawn
Affiliation:
State University of New York, College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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Throughout this paper a ring will always be an associative, not necessarily commutative ring with an identity. It is tacitly assumed that the identity of a subring coincides with that of the whole ring. A ring R is said to be residually finite if it satisfies one of the following equivalent conditions:

(1) Every non-zero ideal of R is of finite index in R;

(2) For each non-zero ideal A of R, the residue class ring R/A is finite;

(3) Every proper homomorphic image of R is finite.

The class of residually finite rings is large enough to merit our investigation. All finite rings and all simple rings are trivially residually finite. Other residually finite rings are said to be proper.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1970 , pp. 92 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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