Uniform rank over differential operator rings and Poincaré-Birkhoff- Witt extensions (Q1079636)

This paper is principally concerned with the question of when a generalized differential operator ring T over a ring R must have the same uniform rank (Goldie dimension) or reduced rank as R, and with the corresponding questions for induced modules. In particular, when R is either a right noetherian \({\mathbb{Q}}\)-algebra with the d.c.c. on right annihilators, or a right noetherian right fully bounded \({\mathbb{Q}}\)- algebra, it is proved that \(T_ T\) and \(R_ R\) have the same uniform rank. For any right noetherian ring R and any right R-module M, it is proved that \((M\otimes_ TT)_ T\) and \(M_ R\) have the same reduced rank. The type of generalized differential operator ring considered is any ring extension \(T\supseteq R\) generated by a finite set of elements satisfying a suitable version of the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem. Related results for an ordinary differential operator ring \(T=R[\theta;\delta]\) have been obtained by \textit{P. Grzeszczuk} [''Goldie dimension of differential operator rings'', to appear in Commun. Algebra], including the equality of uniform ranks for \(T_ T\) and \(R_ R\) when R is a \({\mathbb{Q}}\)-algebra with the d.c.c. on right annihilators.