On almost nilpotent rings and ideals (Q803244)

A ring A is said to be almost nilpotent, if every nonzero ideal of A strictly contains a power of A. As is known [cf. \textit{G. A. P. Heyman, T. L. Jenkins} and \textit{H. J. le Roux}, Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hung. 39, 11- 15 (1982; Zbl 0441.16006)] an almost nilpotent ring is either prime or nilpotent. The following are equivalent for a ring A: i) A is prime and almost nilpotent, ii) A is semiprime having a proper essential almost nilpotent ideal P and A/P is nilpotent, iii) A is semiprime and every proper homomorphic image of A is nilpotent. A is said to be subdirectly indecomposable, if the intersection of any two nonzero ideals is nonzero. If P and Q are either nilpotent or prime almost nilpotent ideals of a subdirectly indecomposable ring A, then \(P+Q\) is almost nilpotent if and only if \(P+Q\) is either nilpotent or a prime ring.