Rings with left self distributive multiplication
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Rings with left self distributive multiplication
zbMATH Open document ID: 0782.16018
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051762
published in: Acta Mathematica Hungarica
publication date: 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
review text: An associative ring is left self distributive (LD-ring, for short) if it satisfies the identity \(xyz = xyxz\). Analogously right self distributive rings (RD-rings) are introduced. Rings which are both LD and RD-rings were already classified by M. Petrich. The present paper shows that LD- rings form a much more extensive variety. If \(N\) denotes the set of all nilpotent elements of an LD-ring \(R\), then \(N\) is an ideal, \(N^ 3 = 0\), and \(R/N\) is Boolean. Moreover if \(R/N\) contains a unity then \(R = A\oplus N\) (direct sum of left ideals) with \(A\) a Boolean ring with unity. Further it is proved that any LD-ring is left permutable, i.e. satisfies \(xyz = yxz\) identically, and hence medial. Finally a complete description of subdirectly irreducible LD-rings is given: A subdirectly irreducible LD-ring is either nilpotent of index at most three, \(Z_ 2\), or a certain four element ring.
reviewed by: Jaromír Duda
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16R10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16S60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16D70
zbMATH DE Number: 149624
zbMATH Keywords: RD-rings
zbMATH Keywords: direct sum of left ideals
zbMATH Keywords: identity
zbMATH Keywords: right self distributive rings
zbMATH Keywords: LD-rings
zbMATH Keywords: nilpotent elements
zbMATH Keywords: Boolean ring
zbMATH Keywords: left permutable
zbMATH Keywords: medial
zbMATH Keywords: subdirectly irreducible LD-rings
author: G. F. Birkenmeier
author: Henry E. Heatherly
author: Tomáš Kepka
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00051762
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