Hereditary and semihereditary rings without nilpotent elements (Q1174071)

The word ``ring'' will mean ``associative ring'', not necessarily with unity. Recall that a ring with unity is called a right p.p. ring if each principal right ideal is projective. A ring is called semihereditary (hereditary) if each finitely generated right ideal (each right ideal) is projective. In this paper we will define the corresponding concepts for rings without unity (in the case of rings with unity these definitions agree with the original ones).