English

Primitivity of prime countable-dimensional regular algebras

Rings and Algebras 2013-12-11 v2

Abstract

Let kk be a field and let RR be a countable dimensional prime von Neumann regular kk-algebra. We show that RR is primitive, answering a special case of a question of Kaplansky.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.5848,
  title  = {Primitivity of prime countable-dimensional regular algebras},
  author = {Pere Ara and Jason P. Bell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5848},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

8 pages; revised version; to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc

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