Quasi-primitive rings and density theory (Q698518)

The author defines the notions of quasi and almost primitive for a ring \(R\), as well as almost semiprimitive. These involve the existence of faithful, monotone, total, and (quasi/almost) compressible modules for \(R\). He shows that a nonsingular prime ring with uniform left and right ideals is quasi-primitive. An example of the density theorems proved is the statement that for a quasi-primitive ring \(R\), there is a vector space \(V_D\) so that \(R\) embeds as a uniformly dense subring of \(\text{End}(V_D)\); this means that for \(D\)-independent \(\{v_1,\dots,v_n\}\subseteq V\) and \(\{u_1,\dots,u_n\}\subseteq V\) there is \(r\in R\) and \(d\in D\) so that for all \(i\), \(rv_i=du_i\). The author also extends a result of the reviewer [Commun. Algebra 22, No. 4, 1305-1320 (1994; Zbl 0809.16043)] by showing that if \(E\) is a derivation of an almost semiprimitive ring \(R\) and has all nilpotent values on a left ideal \(L\) of \(R\) then \(LE(L)=0\); when \(R\) is almost primitive then also \(E(L)^2=0\).