Mathematics (Oct 2021)

On Rings of Weak Global Dimension at Most One

  • Askar Tuganbaev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/math9212643
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 21
p. 2643

Abstract

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A ring R is of weak global dimension at most one if all submodules of flat R-modules are flat. A ring R is said to be arithmetical (resp., right distributive or left distributive) if the lattice of two-sided ideals (resp., right ideals or left ideals) of R is distributive. Jensen has proved earlier that a commutative ring R is a ring of weak global dimension at most one if and only if R is an arithmetical semiprime ring. A ring R is said to be centrally essential if either R is commutative or, for every noncentral element x∈R, there exist two nonzero central elements y,z∈R with xy=z. In Theorem 2 of our paper, we prove that a centrally essential ring R is of weak global dimension at most one if and only is R is a right or left distributive semiprime ring. We give examples that Theorem 2 is not true for arbitrary rings.

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