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Multiplicative bases and commutative semiartinian von Neumann regular algebras

Rings and Algebras 2025-04-24 v2

Abstract

Let RR be a semiartinian (von Neumann) regular ring with primitive factors artinian. The dimension sequence DR\mathcal D _R is an invariant that captures the various skew-fields and dimensions occurring in the layers of the socle sequence of RR. Though DR\mathcal D _R does not determine RR up to an isomorphism even for rings of Loewy length 22, we prove that it does so when RR is a commutative semiartinian regular KK-algebra of countable type over a field KK. The proof is constructive: given the sequence D\mathcal D, we construct the unique KK-algebra of countable type R=Bα,nR = B_{\alpha,n} such that D=DR\mathcal D = \mathcal D _R by a transfinite iterative construction from the base case of the KK-algebra R(0,K)R(\aleph_0,K) consisting of all eventually constant sequences in K0K^{\aleph_0}. Moreover, we prove that the KK-algebras Bα,nB_{\alpha,n} possess conormed strong multiplicative bases despite the fact that the ambient KK-algebras KκK^{\kappa} do not even have any bounded bases for any infinite cardinal κ\kappa. Recently, a study of the number of limit models in AECs of modules [1] has raised interest in the question of existence of strictly λ\lambda-injective modules for arbitrary infinite cardinals λ\lambda. In the final section, we construct examples of such modules over the KK-algebra R(κ,K)R(\kappa,K) for each cardinal κλ\kappa \geq \lambda. [1] M. Mazari-Armida, On limit models and parametrized noetherian rings, J. Algebra 669(2025), 58--74.

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@article{arxiv.2501.06018,
  title  = {Multiplicative bases and commutative semiartinian von Neumann regular algebras},
  author = {Kateřina Fuková and Jan Trlifaj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06018},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Revised version. The section on multiplicative bases substantially extended, proving, e.g., that no non-completely reducible von Neumann regular self-injective ring has a bounded basis