Rings of Quotients of Group Rings

Burgess, W. D.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 21 (1969) no. 1, pp. 865-875

Résumé

The group ring AG of a group G and a ring A is the ring of all formal sums Σ g∈G agg with ag ∈ A and with only finitely many non-zero ag. Elements of A are assumed to commute with the elements of G. In (2), Connell characterized or completed the characterization of Artinian, completely reducible and (von Neumann) regular group rings ((2) also contains many other basic results). In (3, Appendix 3) Connell used a theorem of Passman (6) to characterize semi-prime group rings. Following in the spirit of these investigations, this paper deals with the complete ring of (right) quotients Q(AG) of the group ring AG. It is hoped that the methods used and the results given may be useful in characterizing group rings with maximum condition on right annihilators and complements, at least in the semi-prime case.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1969-094-0

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