On zero subrings and periodic subrings (Q1607755)

A ring \(R\) is an FZS-ring if every subring of \(R\) having trivial multiplication is finite. The author gives new proofs of two known results for FZS-rings and proves a result on periodic subrings. The known results for FZS-rings are: if \(R\) is nil then it is finite; if \(R\) is semiprime then it is a direct sum of a reduced ring and finitely many finite simple rings. The new result shows that a torsion ring \(R\) contains an infinite periodic subring if and only if \(R\) contains an infinite set of pairwise commuting periodic elements.