Existence of Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant in commutative rings

MaRDI QIDQ6340958zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Guoqing Wang

Publication date 17 May 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Arithmetic theory of semigroups (20M13)

Abstract: Let $R$ be a commutative unitary ring. An idempotent in $R$ is an element $einR$ with $e^2=e$. The ErdH{o}s-Burgess constant associated with the ring $R$ is the smallest positive integer $ell$ (if exists) such that for any given $ell$ elements (not necessarily distinct) of $R$, say $a_1,ldots,a_{ell}inR$, there must exist a nonempty subset $Jsubset1,2,ldots,ell$ with $prodlimit{s}_{jinJ}{a}_j$ being an idempotent. In this paper, we prove that except for an infinite commutative ring with a very special form, the ErdH{o}s-Burgess constant of the ring $R$ exists if and only if $R$ is finite.

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