Division closed partially ordered rings

DOI10.1007/S00012-017-0467-7MaRDI QIDQ1689293zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jingjing Ma, Warren Wm. McGovern

Publication date 12 January 2018

Published in Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-017-0467-7

zbMATH Keywords

\(\ell\)-ring \(d\)-ring \(f\)-ring almost \(f\)-ring partially-ordered ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered rings, algebras, modules (06F25)

Review text

Given a partially ordered ring \(R\) (possibly with zero-divisors), a canonical positive cone \(\mathcal{P}\) is defined on the field of fractions \(q(R)\) under which \(q(R)\) is a `regular division closed' partially ordered ring, a new condition introduced by the authors, and it is shown that \(R\) embeds in \(q(R)\) as a partially ordered ring iff \(R\) is also regular division closed. In the case that \(R\) is a lattice-ordered integral domain, a new notion of being `strongly positively saturated' is introduced and shown to be equivalent to the field of fractions \(q(R)\) being totally ordered under the ordering induced by \(\mathcal{P}\) -- this is generalized to show that any \(d\)-ring \(R\) is strongly positively saturated iff \(R\) is totally ordered. A new notion of `separating elements' in a partially ordered ring are introduced and used to characterize regular division closed \(\ell\)-rings in terms of their positive regular elements, and it is shown that any semiprime almost \(f\)-ring whose positive elements are all `super-separating' is in fact a totally ordered integral domain. Division closed \(\ell\)-rings are then explored in full generality, culminating with a proof that any unital division closed \(\ell\)-ring with no nonzero positive nilpotent elements is a totally ordered integral domain, as is any division closed reduced \(d\)-ring (possibly without identity).

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