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The Cardinality of the Center of a PI Ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charles Lanski
Charles Lanski*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1113 USA
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Abstract

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The main result shows that if $R$ is a semiprime ring satisfying a polynomial identity, and if $Z(R)$ is the center of $R$, then card $R\,\le \,{{2}^{\text{card}\,Z\text{(}R\text{)}}}$. Examples show that this bound can be achieved, and that the inequality fails to hold for rings which are not semiprime.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1998 , pp. 81 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1998

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