Locally compact semilocal rings

Locally Compact Baer Rings

Locally direct sums [W, Definition 3.15] appeared naturally in classification results for topological rings (see, e.g.,[K2], [S1], [S2], [S3], [U1]). We give here a result (Theorem 3) for locally compact Baer rings by using of locally direct sums. 1. Conventions and definitions All topological rings are assumed associative and Hausdorff. The subring generated by a subset A of a ring R is denote...

On Semilocal Modules and Rings

It is well-known that a ring R is semiperfect if and only if RR (or RR) is a supplemented module. Considering weak supplements instead of supplements we show that weakly supplemented modules M are semilocal (i.e., M/Rad(M) is semisimple) and that R is a semilocal ring if and only if RR (or RR) is weakly supplemented. In this context the notion of finite hollow dimension (or finite dual Goldie d...

Tits Indices over Semilocal Rings

We present a simplified version of Tits’ proof of the classification of semisimple algebraic groups, which remains valid over semilocal rings. We also provide explicit conditions on anisotropic groups to appear as anisotropic kernels of semisimple groups of a given index.

P-Amenable Locally Compact Hypergroups

Locally Compact Topologically Nil and Monocompact PI-rings

In this note we shall investigate a topological version of the problem of Kurosh: “Is any algebraic algebra locally finite?” Kaplansky’s theorem concerning the local nilpotence of nil PI-algebras is well-known. We will prove a generalization of Kaplansky’s theorem to the class of locally compact rings. We use in the proof a theorem of A. I. Shirshov [8] concerning the height of a finitely gener...