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Nilpotent, Algebraic and Quasi-Regular Elements in Rings and Algebras
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 December 2016
Abstract
We prove that an integral Jacobson radical ring is always nil, which extends a well-known result from algebras over fields to rings. As a consequence we show that if every element x of a ring R is a zero of some polynomial px with integer coefficients, such that px(1) = 1, then R is a nil ring. With these results we are able to give new characterizations of the upper nilradical of a ring and a new class of rings that satisfy the Köthe conjecture: namely, the integral rings.
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- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , August 2017 , pp. 753 - 769
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- Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2017
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