Sang Jo Yun

INSERTION-OF-FACTORS-PROPERTY WITH FACTORS MAXIMAL IDEALS

Insertion-of-factors-property, which was introduced by Bell, has a role in the study of various sorts of zero-divisors in noncommutative rings. We in this note consider this property in the case that factors are restricted to maximal ideals. A ring is called IMIP when it satisfies such property. It is shown that the Dorroh extension of A by K is an IMIP ring if and only if A is an IFP ring without identity, where A is a nil algebra over a field K. The structure of an IMIP ring is studied in relation to various kinds of rings which have roles in noncommutative ring theory.

On a ring structure related to annihilators

In this note, we focus our attention on a new ring structure related to annihilators, and consider a ring property that contains many kinds of ring classes, introducing right ZAFS. This property is shown to be not left-right symmetric but left-right symmetric for left or right Artinian rings. The left (right) ZAFS property is shown to pass to Ore extensions with automorphisms. The left (respectively, right) ZAFS property is shown to pass also to classical left (respectively, right) quotient rings, yielding that semiprime right Goldie rings are ZAFS.

ON QUASI-COMMUTATIVE RINGS

We study the structure of central elements in relation with polynomial rings and introduce quasi-commutative as a generalization of commutative rings. The Jacobson radical of the polynomial ring over a quasi-commutative ring is shown to coincide with the set of all nilpotent polynomials; and locally finite quasi-commutative rings are shown to be commutative. We also provide several sorts of examples by showing the relations between quasi-commutative rings and other ring properties which have roles in ring theory. We examine next various sorts of ring extensions of quasi-commutative rings.

ON IDEMPOTENTS IN RELATION WITH REGULARITY

We make a study of two generalizations of regular rings, concentrating our attention on the structure of idempotents. A ring R is said to be right attaching-idempotent if for there exists such that ab is an idempotent. Next R is said to be generalized regular if for there exist nonzero such that ab is a nonzero idempotent. It is first checked that generalized regular is left-right symmetric but right attaching-idempotent is not. The generalized regularity is shown to be a Morita invariant property. More structural properties of these two concepts are also investigated.