Every Commutative Ring Has a Minimal Ring Extension

In this article, basic ideals in a Leavitt path algebra over a com- mutative unital ring are studied. It is shown that for a nite acyclic graph E and a commutative unital ring R, the Leavitt path algebra LR(E) is a direct sum of minimal basic ideals and that for a commutative ring R and a graph E satisfying Condition (L), the Leavitt path algebra LR(E) has no non-zero nilpotent basic ideals. Uniqueness theorems for Leavitt path algebras over commutative unital rings are also discussed.

The rings of the title are characterized. In view of earlier work on this problem, the main contribution here is the following result. Let R be a (commutative unital) ring extension of ℤ of the form ℤ[t] which is not an integral domain and which is not integral over ℤ. Then R has only finitely many (unital) subrings if and only if there exist nonzero integers a, b with at = b such that the minimal positive such a and the corresponding b satisfy (i) is integral over ℤ and (ii) there does not exist a prime number p such that ker(ϕ)⊆ p ℤ[X], where ϕ is the (unital) ring homomorphism ℤ[X] → R sending X to t. It is also proved that if T is any finite ring and n any nonzero integer, then T × ℤ[1/n] has only finitely many subrings.

Let S be a cancellative monoid with quotient group of torsion-free rank a.We show that the monoid ring R[S] is a Hilbert ring if and only if the polynomial ring R[{ X, },s/] is a Hilbert ring, where |/| = a.Assume that R is a commutative unitary ring and G is an abelian group.The first research problem listed in [K, Chapter 7] is that of determining equivalent conditions in order that the group ring R[G] should be a Hilbert ring.Matsuda has considered this question in [Ml, 6].His results show that for G finitely generated, R[G] and R are simultaneously Hilbert rings; if G is not finitely generated, then R[G] a Hilbert ring implies that R is a Hilbert ring, but the converse fails.In [M2, 5] Matsuda considers briefly the corresponding Hilbert-ring-characterization problem for a monoid ring R[S], where S is torsion-free and cancellative.Let a be the torsion-free rank of G and let {Xj)lsl be a set of indeterminates over R of cardinality a.In Corollary 1 we show that R[G] and P[{^,},e/] are simultaneously Hilbert rings.While the problem of determining equivalent conditions for P[{Ar,}/e/] to be a Hilbert ring has not been completely resolved, it has been worked on extensively [Kr, Go, L, Gl, H], and a significant body of positive results exists concerning this problem.The proof of Theorem 1 suggests the following conjecture: if S is a cancellative commutative monoid with quotient group G, then R[S] is a Hilbert ring if and only if R[G] is a Hilbert ring; this result is established in Theorem 2.All monoids considered are assumed to be commutative, and rings are assumed to be commutative and unitary.The statement of Theorem 1 uses the following terminology.For a cardinal number a, an extension ring T of R is said to be a-generated over R if T is generated over R by a set of cardinality at most a.Theorem 1. Assume that X = {XA is a set of indeterminates of cardinality a over the ring R. Denote by Za the direct sum of a copies of the additive group Z of integers.The following conditions are equivalent.(1) R[X] is not a Hilbert ring.(2) There exists a prime ideal P of R such that R/P admits an a-generated extension ring that is a G-domain, but not afield.(3) The group ring R[Za] is not a Hilbert ring._

Let R be a commutative ring with identity. A short exact sequence of R-modules is said to be neat (respectively, -pure) if the sequence (respectively, ) is exact for every simple R-module S. The characterization of the integral domains over which neatness and -purity coincide has been given by László Fuchs: they are the integral domains where every maximal ideal is projective (and so also finitely generated). We show that for a commutative ring R, every maximal ideal of R is finitely generated and projective if and only if R has projective socle and neatness and -purity coincide. For a commutative ring R, we prove that neatness and -purity coincide if and only if every maximal ideal of R is finitely generated and the unique maximal ideal PP of the local ring RP is a principal ideal for every maximal ideal P of R. This result is proved firstly over commutative local rings and then using localization over any commutative ring. The Auslander-Bridger transpose of simple modules is used in proving these equivalences because it is an essential tool for the passage between proper classes of short exact sequences of modules that are projectively generated and these that are flatly generated by a set of finitely presented modules. For a commutative ring R, we prove that neatness and -purity coincide if and only if every simple R-module S is finitely presented and an Auslander-Bridger transpose of S is projectively equivalent to S.

<p>The goal of this thesis is to study non-commutative deformation rings of representations of algebras. The main motivation is to provide a generalization of the deformation theory over commutative local rings studied by B. Mazur, M. Schlessinger and others. The latter deformation theory has played an important role in number theory, and in particular in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.</p> <p>The thesis is divided into two parts.</p> <p>In the first part, <em>A</em> is an arbitrary λ-algebra for a complete local commutative Noetherian ring λ with residue field <em>k</em>. A category Ĉ is defined whose objects are complete local λ-algebras <em>R</em> with residue field <em>k</em> such that <em>R</em> is a quotient ring of a power series algebra over λ in finitely many non-commuting variables. If <em>V</em> is a finite dimensional <em>k</em>-vector space that is also a left <em>A</em>-module and that satisfies a natural finiteness condition, it is proved that <em>V</em> has a so-called versal deformation ring <em>R(A,V)</em>. More precisely, <em>R(A,V)</em> is an object in Ĉ such that the isomorphism class of every lift of <em>V</em> over an object <em>R</em> in Ĉ arises from a morphism α : <em>R(A,V)</em>→ <em>R</em> in Ĉ and α is unique if <em>R</em> is the ring of dual numbers <em>k</em>[ϵ].</p> <p>In the second part, two particular examples of λ, <em>A</em> and <em>V</em> are studied and the versal deformation ring <em>R(A,V)</em> is determined in each of these cases. In the first example, λ=<em>k</em>, <em>A</em> is a series of non-commutative <em>k</em>-algebras depending on a parameter <em>r≥2</em>, and <em>V</em> is a particular quotient module of <em>A</em>; it is shown that <em>R(A,V)</em> is isomorphic to <em>A</em>. The second example builds on the first example when <em>r=2</em> and uses that, if additionally the characteristic of <em>k</em> is 2, then <em>A</em> is isomorphic to the group ring <em>k[D<sub>8</sub>]</em> of a dihedral group <em>D<sub>8</sub></em> of order 8.</p> <p>It is shown that if <em>k</em> is perfect and <em>W</em> is the ring of infinite Witt vectors over <em>k</em>, then <em>R(W[D<sub>8</sub>],V)</em> is isomorphic to <em>W[D<sub>8</sub>]</em>.</p>

Let be the algebra of all n × n upper triangular matrices over a commutative unital ring , and let be a 2-torsion free unital -bimodule. We show that every Lie derivation is a sum of a derivation and a linear map having its range in the center of . We also consider the question of innerness of derivations from into .

Let A be a differential graded (DG) algebra with a trivial differential over a commutative unital ring. This paper investigates the image of the totaling functor, defined from the category of complexes of graded A-modules to the category of DG A-modules. Specifically, we exhibit a special class of semifree DG A-modules which can always be expressed as the totaling of some complex of graded free A-modules. As a corollary, we also provide results concerning the image of the totaling functor when A is a polynomial ring over a field.

Let R be a commutative unital ring and N be a submodule of an R-module M. We show that: 1) the semiprime radical is an invariant on submodules generated by the ascending chain of envelopes of a given submodule; 2) for rings that satisfy the radical formula, ⟨EM (0)⟩ is an idempotent radical leading to a torsion theory whose torsion class has nil R-modules and the torsion-free class has reduced R-modules; and, 3) Noetherian uniserial modules satisfy the semiprime radical formula and their semiprime radical is a nil module.

Leavitt path algebras of labelled graphs

Given any edge-colored graph G and any commutative unital ring R, we construct a generalized Leavitt path algebra LR(G).We show that LR(G) is a certain free product of LR(Gi), where Gis are 1-colored subgraphs of G. We also show that LR(G) may be written as a free product of simpler algebras. In the end, we define a natural \({\mathbb{Z}}\) -grading for LR(G) and give four necessary conditions for simplicity of LR(G).

Let $P$ be a partially ordered set, $R$ a commutative unital ring and $FI(P,R)$ the finitary incidence algebra of $P$ over $R$. We prove that each $R$-linear higher derivation of $FI(P,R)$ decomposes into the product of an inner higher derivation of $FI(P,R)$ and the higher derivation of $FI(P,R)$ induced by a higher transitive map on the set of segments of $P$.

This is the first in a series of papers highlighting the applications of reduced and coreduced modules. Let $R$ be a commutative unital ring and $I$ be an ideal of $R$. We show that $I$-reduced $R$-modules and $I$-coreduced $R$-modules provide a setting in which the Matlis-Greenless-May (MGM) Equivalence and the Greenless-May (GM) Duality hold. These two notions have been hitherto only known to exist in the derived category setting. We realise the $I$-torsion and the $I$-adic completion functors as representable functors and under suitable conditions compute natural transformations between them and other functors.

Let R be a commutative unital ring and n ∈ ℕ, n ≥ 2. A system σ = (σij), 1 ≤ i, j ≤ n, of additive subgroups σij of R is called a net or carpet over R of order n if σirσrj ⊆ σij for all i, r, and j. A net without diagonal is called an elementary net or elementary carpet. Let n ≥ 3. Consider a matrix ω = (ωij) of additive subgroups ωij of R, defined for i ≠ j as follows: $$ {\omega}_{ij}=\sum \limits_{k=1}^n{\sigma}_{ik}{\sigma}_{kj} $$ , k ≠ i, j. The set ω = (ωij) of elementary subgroups ωij of R is an elementary net ω and is called an elementary derived net. The diagonal of the derived net ω is defined by the formula $$ {\omega}_{ii}=\sum \limits_{k\ne s}{\sigma}_{ik}{\sigma}_{ks}{\sigma}_{si} $$ , 1 ≤ i ≤ n, where the sum is taken over all 1 ≤ k ≠ s ≤ n. It is proved that an elementary net σ induces the derived net ω = (ωij) and the net Ω = (Ωij) associated with the elementary group E(σ), where ω ⊆ σ ⊆ Ω, ωirΩrj ⊆ ωij and Ωirωrj ⊆ ωij (1 ≤ i, r, j ≤ n). In particular, the matrix ring M(ω) is a two-sided ideal of the ring M(Ω). For the nets of order n = 3, we establish a more precise result.

Considering prime Leavitt path algebras L K ⁢ ( E ) {L_{K}(E)} , with E being an arbitrary graph with at least two vertices, and K being any field, we construct a class of maximal commutative subalgebras of L K ⁢ ( E ) {L_{K}(E)} such that, for every algebra A from this class, A has zero intersection with the commutative core ℳ K ⁢ ( E ) {\mathcal{M}_{K}(E)} of L K ⁢ ( E ) {L_{K}(E)} defined and studied in [C. Gil Canto and A. Nasr-Isfahani, The commutative core of a Leavitt path algebra, J. Algebra 511 2018, 227–248]. We also give a new proof of the maximality, as a commutative subalgebra, of the commutative core ℳ R ⁢ ( E ) {\mathcal{M}_{R}(E)} of an arbitrary Leavitt path algebra L R ⁢ ( E ) {L_{R}(E)} , where E is an arbitrary graph and R is a commutative unital ring.

Let R be a commutative unitary ring and I an ideal of R. We prove that is isonoetherian if and only if R is isonoetherian, I is idempotent and each ideal of R contained in I is finitely generated. We prove that satisfies ACC d on ideals if and only if R is Noetherian. We deduce that the ring satisfies ACC d on ideals if and only if R satisfies ACC d on ideals, I is idempotent and each ideal of R contained in I is finitely generated. We study polynomial rings satisfying ACC d on ideals. We give an example of a ring satisfying ACC d on ideals but is not isonoetherian.