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Fragmented rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Paul Dubreil
Affiliation:
Université de Paris VI

Synopsis

The publication of the results in this paper has been delayed, for non-mathematical reasons. However, the author has given lectures on these results in Smolenice [2], Gainesville, Tulane. Riverside (1971), Milan (1972) and in Paris. The main consideration in this paper is the notion of a fragmented ring and its multiplicative semigroup. A fragmented ring is a ring with an identity having a finite set of idempotents, these commuting and therefore being central. In a subsequent paper we shall consider associated ideas in a purely semigroup-theoretic context and, in so doing, point out some differences between general semigroups and those semigroups that are the multiplicative semigroups of rings.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1978

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