Left principal ideal rings

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A. V. Jategaonkar Dept of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY/USA

Left Principal Ideal Rings

Springer-Verlag Berlin· Heidelberg· New York 1970

Lecture Notes in Mathematics A collection of informal reports and seminars Edited by A. Dold, Heidelberg and B. Eckmann, ZUrich

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A. V. Jategaonkar Dept of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY/USA

Left Principal Ideal Rings

Springer-Verlag Berlin· Heidelberg· New York 1970

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PREFACE The aim of this monograph is to present a self-contained account of the structure theory and the ideal theory of principal left ideal rings with unity (pli-rings, for short). aspects of pli-rings.

It is not an account of all

Indeed, it contains nothing at all concerning

modules over pli-rings and very little concerning factorization of elements. A glance at the table of contents will reveal a little of what the monograph contains.

Moreover, each chapter has a separate introduction

In each section, the main results are stated as soon as enough definitions are given to make the statements meaningful.

This arrangement

may help to get a detailed idea of the contents unhampered by proofs. A first year graduate course in algebra covering Artinian rings and an acquaintance with ordinals would be enough to read most of the monograph. Some parts of this monograph are taken from my thesis written under the supervision of Professor Newcomb Greenleaf.

I wish to thank

him for the encouragement and advice I received from him.

Thanks are

due to Professor R. E. Johnson who read the first draft of this monograph and made a number of useful suggestion@.

In particular, in §6

of Chapter II, I have followed the simple and elegant method suggested by him.

I wish to thank Professor Alex Rosenberg and Professor P. J.

Hilton for their interest in this monograph.

I wish to thank Mrs.

Manju Bewtra for pointing out some inaccuracies in the first draft.

CONTENTS Preface Chapter I: Left Goldie Rings. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

1

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Terminology and Notation. ••••••.••••••••••••••••••••

2

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Left quotient rings" . "

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5

2.

Goldie's Theorems.

4-4

12

3· 4.

Nil sUbrings . • • • .. " "

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Chapter II: Structure of Pli-rings • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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Small's Theorem. .............................................................. " ..

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36

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41

2.

Semi-prime left Goldie semi-pli-rings • • • • • • • •