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On the Structure of Semi-Prime Rings and their Rings of Quotients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Joachim Lambek
Joachim Lambek*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study and McGill University
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We are mainly interested in the study of prime and semi-prime rings and their rings of quotients. However, our argument proceeds largely in the category of modules (§ 1 to 4) and bimodules (§ 5 to 7).

After a brief description of the generalized rings of quotients introduced recently by Johnson, Utumi, and Findlay and the present author, we study a closure operation on the lattice of submodules of a module. For the lattice of left ideals of a ring, the concept of closed submodules reduces to the If-ideals of Utumi. The lattice of closed submodules of a module is always a complete modular lattice. We are specially interested in the case when it is a complemented lattice. This happens, in particular, when the singular submodule of Johnson and Wong vanishes. We consider the lattice of closed right ideals of a prime ring S and determine the maximal ring of right quotients of S in the case when this lattice has atoms.

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 13 , 1961 , pp. 392 - 417
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1961

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