Maximal orders in Artinian rings (Q794747)

The two principal results of this paper concern a Noetherian ring R which is a maximal order in its Artinian quotient ring. The first states that R is a direct sum of prime rings and a ring S which contains no reflexive ideals other than S itself. Examples are given to show that S may be neither prime nor Artinian. The second result states: If T is a proper reflexive ideal of R then R/T has a quotient ring which is an Artinian principal ideal ring. This extends a result for prime rings R of \textit{M. Chamarie} [J. Algebra 72, 210-222 (1981; Zbl 0468.16008)].