Stratiform Simple Artinian Rings
Stratiform Simple Artinian Rings
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层状简单海天环
DOI:
10.1112/plms/s3-53.2.267
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
A. Schofield
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作者:
A. Schofield
There have been a number of papers on the skew fields of fractions of certain noetherian rings such as the Weyl algebras and the group rings of polycyclic-byfinite groups, but little has been done to provide some kind of coherent theory for such skew fields; it is the aim of this paper to set up such a general theory and to prove generalizations of a number of theorems such as Resco's embedding theorem [3] for purely transcendental commutative fields and Stafford's theorem [8] showing that the Hirsch length of a polycyclic-by-finite group is an invariant of the skew field of fractions of its group ring. We shall consider a class of skew fields, the stratiform skew fields, which include the skew fields of fractions of polycyclic-by-finite group rings and of enveloping algebras of algebraic or soluble Lie algebras; for these skew fields, we shall prove an embedding theorem corresponding to Resco's results; also, we shall find that if* D z> E is an extension of skew fields where either D or E is stratiform, and one of the dimensions [D: E] t or [D: E] r is finite, then the other dimension is also finite. Finally, in the last section, we shall find that for the first Weyl skew field, any skew subfield containing the centre is either commutative of transcendence degree 1 over the centre or else such that the Weyl skew field is finite-dimensional over it on both sides.Through this paper, all rings considered will actually be fc-algebras for some fixed commutative field k. Further, if B is an (R',/?)-bimodule for rings R and R', we shall also assume that the action of k on the left is the same as the action of k on the right. This means that the category of (/?',/?)-bimodules is naturally equivalent to the category of right R'® kR-modules and under this equivalence the free bimodule of rank 1, R'< 8> fc/? corresponds to the free R'® kR-module of rank 1. It is therefore clear what is meant by a projective bimodule or a flat bimodule. Further, we can define the homological dimension of bimodules and the weak dimension. We shall often abbreviate homological dimension and weak dimension to hd and wd respectively.