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On (von Neumann) regular rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. Yue Chi Ming
R. Yue Chi Ming
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Universite Paris VII, U.E.R. de Mathematiques, Tour 45-55, 2, Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris
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Throughout, A denotes an associative ring with identity and “module” means “left, unitary A-module”. In (3), it is proved that A is semi-simple, Artinian if A is a semi-prime ring such that every left ideal is a left annihilator. A natural question is whether a similar result holds for a (von Neumann) regular ring. The first proposition of this short note is that if A contains no non-zero nilpotent element, then A is regular iff every principal left ideal is the left annihilator of an element of A. It is well-known that a commutative ring is regular iff every simple module is injective (I. Kaplansky, see (2, p. 130)). The second proposition here is a partial generalisation of that result.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 89 - 91
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1974

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