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On orders of directly indecomposable finite rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Yasuyuki Hirano  and
Takao Sumiyama
Yasuyuki Hirano
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan
Takao Sumiyama
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Aichi Institute of Technology, Yasuka-chô, Toyota, 470–03, Japan
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Abstract

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Let R be a directly indecomposable finite ring. Let p be a prime, let m be a positive integer and suppose the radical of R has pm elements. Then we show that . As a consequence, we have that, for a given finite nilpotent ring N, there are up to isomorphism only finitely many finite rings not having simple ring direct summands, with radical isomorphic to N. Let R* denote the group of units of R. Then we prove that (1 − 1/p)m+1 ≤ |R*| / |R| ≤ 1 − 1/pm. As a corollary, we obtain that if R is a directly indecomposable non-simple finite 2′-ring then |R| < |R*| |Rad(R)|.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 1992 , pp. 353 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1992

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