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On a class of power-associative periodic rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

J.A. Loustau
J.A. Loustau
Affiliation:
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
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Abstract

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A power-associative ring A is called a p-ring provided there exists a prime p so that for every x in A, xp = x and px = 0. It is shown that if A is such a ring with p ≠ 2, then A is isomorphic to a subdirect sum of copies of GF(p), the Galois field with p elements.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , December 1971 , pp. 357 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1971

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