A ring is called a Gelfand ring (pm ring ) if each prime ideal is contained in a unique maximal ideal. For a Gelfand ring R with Jacobson radical zero, we show that the following are equivalent: (1) R is Artinian; (2) R is Noetherian; (3) R has a finite Goldie dimension; (4) Every maximal ideal is generated by an idempotent; (5) Max (R) is finite. We also give the following resu1ts:an ideal...

For a ring R, endomorphism α of R and positive integer n we define a skew triangular matrix ring Tn(R,α). By using an ideal theory of a skew triangular matrix ring Tn(R,α) we can determine prime, primitive, maximal ideals and radicals of the ring R[x;α]/〈xn〉, for each positive integer n, where R[x;α] is the skew polynomial ring, and 〈xn〉 is the ideal generated by xn.

Let R be a ring with Jacobson ideal J and center C. McCoy and Montgomery introduced the concept of a p-ring (p prime) as a ring R of characteristic p such that xp = x for all x in R. Thus, Boolean rings are simply 2-rings (p = 2). It readily follows that a p-ring (p prime) is simply a ring R of prime characteristic p such that R ⊆ N + Ep, where N = {0} and Ep = {x ∈ R : xp = x}. With this as mo...

In this paper we investigate further properties of fuzzy ideals of a BL-algebra. The notions of fuzzy prime ideals, fuzzy irreducible ideals, and fuzzy Gödel ideals of a BL-algebra are introduced and their several properties are investigated. We give a procedure to generate a fuzzy ideal by a fuzzy set. We prove that every fuzzy irreducible ideal is a fuzzy prime ideal but a fuzzy prime ideal m...