Outer Automorphisms of Semi‐Prime Rings
Outer Automorphisms of Semi‐Prime Rings
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半素环的外自同构
DOI:
10.1112/jlms/s2-18.2.209
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
S. Montgomery
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作者:
S. Montgomery
There has been a great deal of work recently concerning the relationship between the structure of a ring R and the structure of its fixed ring RG under the action of a finite group G of automorphisms ofR. Many of these results require that the order\G\of the group not act as a zero-divisor on R, as they depend on a fundamental theorem of G. Bergman and IM Isaacs [3] which states that, under this hypothesis, if RG is nilpotent then R is nilpotent. Examples of such results (assuming that R has no additive| G|-torsion) are as follows: if R is semi-prime, then R is a Goldie ring if and only if RG is a Goldie ring (this was proved by VK Kharchenko [9] and independently for solvable groups by M. Cohen [4]); if RG satisfies a polynomial identity (PI), then R also satisfies a PI (this is also a result of Kharchenko [9]); and if R is semi-prime and RG is Noetherian, then R is Noetherian (this is a theorem of D. Farkas and R. Snider [6]).In this paper, we will prove analogous theorems, with no assumptions about\G\acting on R, in the situation when R is semi-prime and G consists of certain outer automorphisms. G will not simply consist of automorphisms which are not inner on R, but instead will satisfy the definition of outer given by Kharchenko in his study of generalized identities with automorphisms [10]. His definition, for any semi-prime ring R, uses the ring of quotients R? of it relative to the filter! F of two-sided essential ideals of R, and when R is prime it simply means that G is outer when extended to R?. We will call G^-outer if it is outer by Kharchenko's definition. We first examine the relationship of#"-outer to other notions of outer. We show that a group G being^"-outer is formally weaker than its being" completely outer", the definition of Y. Miyashita [13] used in non-commutative Galois theory. When R is semi-prime Goldie with a classical ring of quotients Q (R), we show that G is jF-outer on R if and only if, when extended to Q (R), G is completely outer. In particular, when R is prime Goldie, G will be outer in the usual sense on Q (R). We also show more explicitly what it means for G to be^"-outer when R is primitive with a minimal one-sided ideal, or more generally when R is a prime ring whose central closure has a minimal one-sided ideal.