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A Generalization of a Theorem of Zassenhaus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Steve Ligh
Steve Ligh*
Affiliation:
Texas A. & M University
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A near-ring is a triple (R, +,.) such that (R, +) is a group, (R,.) is a semigroup and. is left distributive over +; i.e. w(x + z) = wx + wz for each w, x, z in R. A near-field is a nearring such that the nonzero elements form a group under multiplication. Zassenhaus [3] showed that if R is a finite near-field, then (R, + ) is abelian. B.H. Neumann [1] extended this result to all near-fields. Recently another proof of this important result was given by Zemmer [4]. The purpose of this note is to give another generalization of the Zassenhaus theorem. In fact, we shall prove the following.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , October 1969 , pp. 677 - 678
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1969

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