Finite index conditions in rings.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Finite index conditions in rings.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1336.16018
DOI: 10.1216/RMJ-2015-45-4-1177
published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2015-11-04T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1446472429
review text: An old result of \textit{Yu. G. Fedorov} [Usp. Mat. Nauk 6, No. 1(41), 187-189 (1951; Zbl 0042.01802)] asserts that every subgroup of an infinite group \(G\) has finite index if and only if \(G\) is cyclic. Motivated by this result, the author considers analogous problems for rings. Let \(R\) be an infinite ring and \(\mathcal C\) one of the following five classes of additive subgroups of \(R\): (i) all additive subgroups, (ii) subrings, (iii) ideals, (iv) one-sided ideals, (v) Lie ideals. Define \(R\) to have the finite index property (FIP) for \(\mathcal C\) if every nonzero member of \(\mathcal C\) has finite index in \((R,+)\). For cases (i) and (ii), \(R\) has FIP for \(\mathcal C\) if and only if either \(R\cong m\mathbb{Z}\) as rings or if \((R,+)\cong(\mathbb{Z},+)\) and \(R^2=\{0\}\). For cases (iii)-(v), necessary conditions for \(R\) to have FIP for \(\mathcal C\) are given; in every case, \(R\) is either a zero ring or a prime ring. The paper includes many examples.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16P70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16D25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16D70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16W10
zbMATH DE Number: 6504437
zbMATH Keywords: finite index properties for rings
zbMATH Keywords: additive subgroups of rings
author: Charles Lanski
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1908020211
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6504437