Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
AS a generalization of Morita duality, Kraemer introduced the notion of quasi-duality and showed that each left linearly compact ring has a quasi-duality. Let R be an associative ring with identity and R[[x]] the power series ring. We prove that (1) R[[x]] has a quasi-duality if and only if R has a quasi-duality; (2) R[[x]] is left linearly compact if and only if R is left linearly compact and left noetherian; and (3) R[[x]] has a Morita duality if and only if R is left noetherian and has a Morita duality induced by a bimodule RUS such that S is right noetherian.