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Completely simple endomorphism rings of modules

Rings and Algebras 2017-12-27 v1 General Topology

Abstract

It is proved that if A_p is a countable elementary abelian p-group, then: (i) The ring End(A_p) does not admit a nondiscrete locally compact ring topology. (ii) Under (CH) the simple ring End(A_p)/I, where I is the ideal of End(A_p) consisting of all endomorphisms with finite images, does not admit a nondiscrete locally compact ring topology. (iii) The finite topology on End(A_p) is the only second metrizable ring topology on it. Moreover, a characterization of completely simple endomorphism rings of the endomorphism rings of modules over commutative rings is also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1712.09186,
  title  = {Completely simple endomorphism rings of modules},
  author = {V. A. Bovdi and M. A. Salim and Mihail Ursul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09186},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages

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