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A note on the Levitzki radical of a near-ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

N. J. Groenewald
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Port Elizabeth6000 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
P. C. Potgieter
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Port Elizabeth6000 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Abstract

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It is known that in a near-ring N the Levitzki radical L(N), that is, the sum of all locally nilpotent ideals, is the intersection of all the prime ideals P in N such that N/P has zero Levitzki radical. The purpose of this note is to prove that L(N) is the intersection of a certain class of prime ideals, called l-prime ideals. Every l-prime ideal P is such that N/P has zero Levitzki radical. We also introduce an l-semi-prime ideal and show that P is an l-semi-prime ideal if and only if N/P has zero Levitzki radical. We get another characterization of the Levitzki radical of the near-ring as the intersection of all the l-semi-prime ideals.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1984

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