Filtrations on simple Artinian rings (Q1813946)

After some results concerning commutative filtered rings we turn to the study of filtrations on Artinian (left and right) rings with special attention for simple Artinian rings and skewfields. We rediscover discrete valuation rings of a skewfield in the sense of O. Schilling as exhaustive and separated filtrations having an associated graded ring without homogeneous zero-divisors (see Theorem 3.2). In the case of P.I. algebras we describe the filtrations that correspond to the maximal orders over discrete valuation rings (see Theorem 3.8) in terms of the Jacobson radical property of the filtration. The case where the associated graded ring of a filtered simple Artinian ring is a semiprime P.I. ring is reduced to the prime case, by using microlocalization; without P.I. hypothesis an extra assumption is necessary in order to arrive at the same conclusion (see resp. Theorem 3.9, Theorem 3.10).