Semicentral reduced algebras (Q2708641)

The authors survey recent results on generalized triangular matrix algebras and semicentral reduced algebras. They quote mainly the results of their paper [along with \textit{H. E. Heatherly}, (*), J. Algebra 230, No. 2, 558-595 (2000; Zbl 0964.16031)]. In Section 1, they prove many basic properties of left semicentral idempotents. Here many results from (*) are quoted. In Section 2, they prove that a ring \(R\) is semicentral reduced if and only if the matrix ring \(M_n(R)\) is so (where \(n\) is any positive integer). They also prove that the semicentral reduced property is closed under taking trivial extensions of a ring \(R\) by an \(R\)-bimodule. Finally, in Section 3, after quoting some results from (*) on semicentral reduced rings, they prove that if \(R\) is an orthogonally finite semicentral reduced ring and \(\text{Soc}(R_R)\) is an essential right ideal of \(R\), then either \(R\) is simple Artinian or \(\text{Soc}(R_R)^2=0\) (and hence \(R=Z_2(R_R)\)). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0956.00038].