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A Commutativity Condition for Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Howard E. Bell
Howard E. Bell*
Affiliation:
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
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The object of this paper is to prove the following theorem, a special case of which was previously explored in [1].

THEOREM. Let R be any associative ring with the property that

(†) for each x,y ∊ R, there exist integers m,n ≧ I for which xy = ymxn.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , 01 October 1976 , pp. 986 - 991
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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