{"title":"A characterization of potent rings","authors":"Greg Oman","doi":"10.1017/S0017089522000325","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract An associative ring R is called potent provided that for every \n$x\\in R$\n , there is an integer \n$n(x)>1$\n such that \n$x^{n(x)}=x$\n . A celebrated result of N. Jacobson is that every potent ring is commutative. In this note, we show that a ring R is potent if and only if every nonzero subring S of R contains a nonzero idempotent. We use this result to give a generalization of a recent result of Anderson and Danchev for reduced rings, which in turn generalizes Jacobson’s theorem.","PeriodicalId":50417,"journal":{"name":"Glasgow Mathematical Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"324 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Glasgow Mathematical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017089522000325","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract An associative ring R is called potent provided that for every
$x\in R$
, there is an integer
$n(x)>1$
such that
$x^{n(x)}=x$
. A celebrated result of N. Jacobson is that every potent ring is commutative. In this note, we show that a ring R is potent if and only if every nonzero subring S of R contains a nonzero idempotent. We use this result to give a generalization of a recent result of Anderson and Danchev for reduced rings, which in turn generalizes Jacobson’s theorem.
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