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Property: (right/left) primitive
Definition: (right primitive) There exists a faithful simple right $R$ module
Reference(s):
F. W. Anderson and K. R. Fuller. Rings and categories of modules. (2012) @ Chapter 4
N. Jacobson. Basic algebra II. (2012) @ Section 4.1
T. Lam. A first course in noncommutative rings. (2013) @ Chapter 4
Metaproperties:
This property has the following metaproperties
Morita invariant
passes to $eRe$ for any full idempotent $e$
passes to matrix rings
This property
does not
have the following metaproperties
stable under finite products (Counterexample:
$R_{ 9 }$
)
stable under products (Counterexample:
$R_{ 57 }$
)
passes to polynomial rings (Counterexample:
$R_{ 7 }$
is the polynomial ring of
$R_{ 2 }$
)
forms an equational class (counterexample needed)
passes to subrings (Counterexample:
$R_{ 6 }$
is a subring of
$R_{ 101 }$
)
Rings
left
Name
right
$\mathbb Q\langle a,b\rangle/(a^2)$
$\mathbb Q\langle x, y\rangle$
$\mathbb Z\langle x_0, x_1,x_2,\ldots\rangle$
Bergman's example showing that "compressible" is not Morita invariant
Bergman's exchange ring that isn't clean
Bergman's non-unit-regular subring
Bergman's ring with IBN
Bergman's ring without IBN
Bergman's unit-regular ring
Camillo and Nielsen's McCoy ring
Cohn's non-IBN domain
Cohn's right-not-left free ideal ring
Faith-Menal counterexample
Hurwitz quaternions
Kaplansky's right-not-left hereditary ring
Left-not-right Noetherian domain
Lipschitz quaternions
Malcev's nonembeddable domain
Michler & Villamayor's right-not-left V ring
Right-not-left ACC on annihilators triangular ring
Shepherdson's domain that is not stably finite
Small's right hereditary, not-left semihereditary ring
Šter's clean ring with non-clean corner rings
Šter's counterexample showing "clean" is not Morita invariant
$2$-adic integers: $\mathbb Z_2$
$\mathbb A_\mathbb Q$: the ring of adeles of $\mathbb Q$
$\mathbb Q[[X]]$
$\mathbb Q[[x^2,x^3]]$
$\mathbb Q[\mathbb Q]$
$\mathbb Q[x,x^{-1}]$: Laurent polynomials
$\mathbb Q[x,y,z]/(xz,yz)$
$\mathbb Q[x,y]/(x^2, xy)$
$\mathbb Q[x,y]/(x^2-y^3)$
$\mathbb Q[X,Y]_{(X,Y)}$
$\mathbb Q[x,y]_{(x,y)}/(x^2-y^3)$
$\mathbb Q[x]$
$\mathbb Q[x^{1/2},x^{1/4},x^{1/8},...]/(x)$
$\mathbb Q[x_1, x_2,\ldots, x_n]$
$\mathbb R[[x]]$
$\mathbb R[x,y,z]/(x^2,y^2, xz,yz,z^2-xy)$
$\mathbb R[x,y]$ completed $I$-adically with $I=(x^2+y^2-1)$
$\mathbb R[x,y]/(x^2+y^2-1)$: ring of trigonometric functions
$\mathbb R[x]/(x^2)$
$\mathbb R[x_1, x_2,x_3,\ldots]$
$\mathbb Z$: the ring of integers
$\mathbb Z+x\mathbb Q[x]$
$\mathbb Z/(n)$, $n$ divisible by two primes and a square
$\mathbb Z/(n)$, $n$ squarefree and not prime
$\mathbb Z/(p^k)$, $p$ a prime, $k>1$
$\mathbb Z[\frac{1+\sqrt{-19}}{2}]$
$\mathbb Z[\sqrt{-5}]$
$\mathbb Z[i]$: the Gaussian integers
$\mathbb Z[x]$
$\mathbb Z[X]/(X^2,4X, 8)$
$\mathbb Z[X]/(X^2,8)$
$\mathbb Z[x]/(x^2-1)$
$\mathbb Z[x_0, x_1,x_2,\ldots]$
$\mathbb Z\langle x,y\rangle/(y^2, yx)$
$\mathbb Z_S$, where $S=((2)\cup(3))^c$
$\mathbb Z_{(2)}$
$\prod_{i=0}^\infty \mathbb Q$
$\prod_{i=1}^\infty \mathbb Q[[X,Y]]$
$\prod_{i=1}^\infty \mathbb Z/(2^i)$
$\prod_{i=1}^\infty F_2$
$\varinjlim T_{2^n}(\Bbb Q)$
$\varinjlim \mathbb Q^{2^n}$
$\widehat{\mathbb Z}$: the profinite completion of the integers
$C([0,1])$, the ring of continuous real-valued functions on the unit interval
$C\ell_{2,1}(\mathbb R)$: the geometric algebra of Minkowski 3-space
$C^\infty_0(\mathbb R)$: the ring of germs of smooth functions on $\mathbb R$ at $0$
$F_2[\mathcal Q_8]$
$F_2[S_4]$
$F_2[x,y]/(x,y)^2$
$k[[x,y]]/(x^2,xy)$
$k[x;\sigma]/(x^2)$ (Artinian)
$k[x;\sigma]/(x^2)$ (not right Artinian)
$T_\omega(\mathbb Q)$
$T_n(\mathbb Q)$: the upper triangular matrix ring over $\mathbb Q$
$T_n(F_2)$
$T_n(F_q)$
10-adic numbers
2-dimensional uniserial domain
2-truncated Witt vectors over $\Bbb F_2((t))$
Akizuki's counterexample
Algebraic integers
Base ring for $R_{187}$
Base ring for $R_{191}$
Basic ring of Nakayama's QF ring
Bass's right-not-left perfect ring
Berberian's incompressible Baer ring
Bergman's right-not-left primitive ring
catenary, not universally catenary
Chase's left-not-right semihereditary ring
Clark's uniserial ring
Cohn's Schreier domain that isn't GCD
Countably infinite boolean ring
Custom Krull dimension valuation ring
Domanov's prime, nonprimitive, von Neumann regular ring
DVR that is not N-2
Eventually constant sequences in $\mathbb Z$
Facchini's torch ring
Finitely cogenerated, not semilocal ring
Grams' atomic domain which doesn't satisfy ACCP
Grassmann algebra $\bigwedge (V)$, $\dim(V)=\aleph_0$
Henselization of $\Bbb Z_{(2)}$
Hochster's connected, nondomain, locally-domain ring
Interval monoid ring
Kasch not semilocal ring
Kerr's Goldie ring with non-Goldie matrix ring
Left-not-right pseudo-Frobenius ring
Left-not-right uniserial domain
Local right-not-left Kasch ring
McCoy ring that is not Abelian
McGovern's commutative Zorn ring that isn't clean
Mori but not Krull domain
Nagata ring that not quasi-excellent
Nagata's Noetherian infinite Krull dimension ring
Nagata's normal ring that is not analytically normal
Nakayama's quasi-Frobenius ring that isn't Frobenius
Nielsen's right UGP, not left UGP ring
Nielsen's semicommutative ring that isn't McCoy
Noetherian domain that is not N-1
Noetherian ring that is not Grothendieck and not Nagata
Non lift/rad matrix ring over a lift/rad base ring
Non π-regular matrix ring over a π-regular ring
non-$h$-local domain
Non-symmetric $2$-primal ring
Nonlocal endomorphism ring of a uniserial module
Osofsky's $32$ element ring
Osofsky's Type I ring
Page's left-not-right FPF ring
Perfect non-Artinian ring
Perfect ring that isn't semiprimary
prime, von Neumann regular, nonprimitive Leavitt path algebra
Progression free polynomial ring
Pseudo-Frobenius, not quasi-Frobenius ring
Puninski's triangular serial ring
Quasi-continuous ring that is not Ikeda-Nakayama
Ram's Ore extension ring
reduced $I_0$ ring that is not exchange
reduced exchange ring which is not semiregular
Reversible non-symmetric ring
Right-not-left Artinian triangular ring
Right-not-left coherent ring
Right-not-left Kasch ring
Right-not-left Noetherian triangular ring
Right-not-left nonsingular ring
Right-not-left simple injective ring
ring of germs of holomorphic functions on $\mathbb C^n$, $n>1$
Ring of holomorphic functions on $\mathbb C$
Samuel's UFD having a non-UFD power series ring
Semicommutative $R$ such that $R[x]$ is not semicommutative
Square of a torch ring
Trivial extension torch ring
Varadarajan's left-not-right coHopfian ring
$\mathbb C$: the field of complex numbers
$\mathbb H$: Hamilton's quaternions
$\mathbb Q$: the field of rational numbers
$\mathbb Q(x)$: rational functions over the rational numbers
$\mathbb Q+FM_\omega(\mathbb Q)$
$\mathbb Q\langle x,y \rangle/(xy-1)$: the Toeplitz-Jacobson algebra
$\mathbb R$: the field of real numbers
$\mathbb Z/(2)$
$\mathbb Z/(p)$, $p$ an odd prime
$\varinjlim M_{2^n}(\mathbb Q)$
$^\ast \mathbb R$: the field of hyperreal numbers
$F_p(x)$
$k[x,x^{-1};\sigma]$
$M_n(\mathbb Q)$
$M_n(F_2)$
$RCFM_\omega(\mathbb Q)$
Algebra of differential operators on the line (1st Weyl algebra)
Algebraic closure of $F_2$
Bergman's primitive finite uniform dimension ring
Cozzens simple, left principal, right non-Noetherian domain
Cozzens' simple V-domain
Division algebra with no anti-automorphism
Division ring with an antihomomorphism but no involution
field of $2$-adic numbers
Field of algebraic numbers
Field of constructible numbers
Full linear ring of a countable dimensional right vector space
Goodearl's simple self-injective operator algebra
Goodearl's simple self-injective von Neumann regular ring
Kolchin's simple V-domain
Leavitt path algebra of an infinite bouquet of circles
Non-Artinian simple ring
O'Meara's infinite matrix algebra
Rational quaternions
Simple, Noetherian ring with zero divisors and trivial idempotents
Simple, non-Artinian, von Neumann regular ring
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