Ring Theory V2

This volume contains the proceedings of the Ring Theory Session in honor of T. Y. Lam's 70th birthday, at the 31st Ohio State-Denison Mathematics Conference, held from May 25-27, 2012, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Included are expository articles and research papers covering topics such as cyclically presented modules, Eggert's conjecture, the Mittag-Leffler conditions, clean rings, McCoy rings, QF rings, projective and injective modules, Baer modules, and Leavitt path algebras. Graduate students and researchers in many areas of algebra will find this volume valuable as the papers point out many directions for future work; in particular, several articles contain explicit lists of open questions.

Near Rings, Fuzzy Ideals, and Graph Theory explores the relationship between near rings and fuzzy sets and between near rings and graph theory. It covers topics from recent literature along with several characterizations. After introducing all of the necessary fundamentals of algebraic systems, the book presents the essentials of near rings theory, relevant examples, notations, and simple theorems. It then describes the prime ideal concept in near rings, takes a rigorous approach to the dimension theory of N-groups, gives some detailed proofs of matrix near rings, and discusses the gamma near ring, which is a generalization of both gamma rings and near rings. The authors also provide an introduction to fuzzy algebraic systems, particularly the fuzzy ideals of near rings and gamma near rings. The final chapter explains important concepts in graph theory, including directed hypercubes, dimension, prime graphs, and graphs with respect to ideals in near rings. Near ring theory has many applications in areas as diverse as digital computing, sequential mechanics, automata theory, graph theory, and combinatorics. Suitable for researchers and graduate students, this book provides readers with an understanding of near ring theory and its connection to fuzzy ideals and graph theory.

In addition to being an interesting and profound subject in its own right, commutative ring theory is important as a foundation for algebraic geometry and complex analytical geometry. Matsumura covers the basic material, including dimension theory, depth, Cohen-Macaulay rings, Gorenstein rings, Krull rings and valuation rings. More advanced topics such as Ratliff's theorems on chains of prime ideals are also explored. The work is essentially self-contained, the only prerequisite being a sound knowledge of modern algebra, yet the reader is taken to the frontiers of the subject. Exercises are provided at the end of each section and solutions or hints to some of them are given at the end of the book.

"Presents the proceedings of the recently held Third International Conference on Commutative Ring Theory in Fez, Morocco. Details the latest developments in commutative algebra and related areas-featuring 26 original research articles and six survey articles on fundamental topics of current interest. Examines wide-ranging developments in commutative algebra, together with connections to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry."

1. Preliminaries. 1.1. Presenting algebras by relations. 1.2. S-graded algebras and modules. 1.3. [symbol]-filtered algebras and modules -- 2. The [symbol]-leading homogeneous algebra A[symbol]. 2.1. Recognizing A via G[symbol](A): part 1. 2.2. Recognizing A via G[symbol](A): part 2. 2.3. The [symbol-graded isomorphism A[symbol](A). 2.4. Recognizing A via A[symbol] -- 3. Grobner bases: conception and construction. 3.1. Monomial ordering and admissible system. 3.2. Division algorithm and Grobner basis. 3.3. Grobner bases and normal elements. 3.4. Grobner bases w.r.t. skew multiplicative K-bases. 3.5. Grobner bases in K[symbol] and KQ. 3.6. (De)homogenized Grobner bases. 3.7. dh-closed homogeneous Grobner bases -- 4. Grobner basis theory meets PBW theory. 4.1. [symbol]-standard basis [symbol]-PBW isomorphism. 4.2. Realizing [symbol]-PBW isomorphism by Grobner basis. 4.3. Classical PBW K-bases vs Grobner bases. 4.4. Solvable polynomial algebras revisited -- 5. Using A[symbol] in terms of Grobner bases. 5.1. The working strategy. 5.2. Ufnarovski graph. 5.3. Determination of Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension. 5.4. Recognizing Noetherianity. 5.5. Recognizing (semi- )primeness and PI-property. 5.6. Anick's resolution over monomial algebras. 5.7. Recognizing finiteness of global dimension. 5.8. Determination of Hilbert series -- 6. Recognizing (non- )homogeneous p-Koszulity via A[symbol]. 6.1. (Non- )homogeneous p-Koszul algebras. 6.2. Anick's resolution and homogeneous p-Koszulity. 6.3. Working in terms of Grobner bases -- 7. A study of Rees algebra by Grobner bases. 7.1. Defining [symbol] by [symbol]. 7.2. Defining [symbol] by [symbol]. 7.3. Recognizing structural properties of [symbol] via [symbol]. 7.4. An application to regular central extensions. 7.5. Algebras defined by dh-closed homogeneous Grobner bases -- 8. Looking for more Grobner bases. 8.1. Lifting (finite) Grobner bases from O[symbol]. 8.2. Lifting (finite) Grobner bases from a class of algebras. 8.3. New examples of Grobner basis theory. 8.4. Skew 2-nomial algebras. 8.5. Almost skew 2-nomial algebras

Projective modules: Modules and homomorphisms Projective modules Completely reducible modules Wedderburn rings Artinian rings Hereditary rings Dedekind domains Projective dimension Tensor products Local rings Polynomial rings: Skew polynomial rings Grothendieck groups Graded rings and modules Induced modules Syzygy theorem Patching theorem Serre conjecture Big projectives Generic flatness Nullstellensatz Injective modules: Injective modules Injective dimension Essential extensions Maximal ring of quotients Classical ring of quotients Goldie rings Uniform dimension Uniform injective modules Reduced rank Index

This book provides a self-contained introduction to algebraic coding theory over finite Frobenius rings. It is the first to offer a comprehensive account on the subject. Coding theory has its origins in the engineering problem of effective electronic communication where the alphabet is generally the binary field. Since its inception, it has grown as a branch of mathematics, and has since been expanded to consider any finite field, and later also Frobenius rings, as its alphabet. This book presents a broad view of the subject as a branch of pure mathematics and relates major results to other fields, including combinatorics, number theory and ring theory. Suitable for graduate students, the book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of coding theory, as well as algebraists and number theorists looking to apply coding theory to their own work.

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