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The Jacobson radical of a band ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. D. Munn
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW

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A band is a semigroup in which every element is idempotent. In this note we give an explicit description of the Jacobson radical of the semigroup ring of a band over a ring with unity. It is shown, further, that this radical is nil if and only if the Jacobson radical of the coefficient ring is nil. For the particular case of a normal band (see below for the definition) the Jacobson radical of the band ring is nilpotent if and only if the Jacobson radical of the coefficient ring is nilpotent; but this result does not extend to arbitrary bands.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1989

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