When divisibility by an element implies invertibility.

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069332MaRDI QIDQ2477961zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John A. Lewallen

Publication date 14 March 2008

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181069332

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous mapsinvertibilitylocal ringsnil maximal idealsright multiplication mapssurjections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative local and semilocal rings, perfect rings (16L30) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Automorphisms and endomorphisms (16W20)

Review text

The main result of the article is: A ring is a local ring with nil maximal ideal if and only if multiplication by a non-invertible element of a ring is never a surjection on a non-zero right module (Theorem 2.4). The proof is short and elementary.

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