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Essential ideals of incidence algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Eugene Spiegel
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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It is determined when there exists a minimal essential ideal, or minimal essential left ideal, in the incidence algebra of a locally finite partially ordered set defined over a commutative ring. When such an ideal exists, it is described.

MSC classification

Secondary: 16D25: Ideals
Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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