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...

A ring R is called a left APP-ring if the left annihilator lR(Ra) is right s-unital as an ideal of R for any element a ∈ R. We consider left APP-property of the skew formal power series ring R[[x;α]] where α is a ring automorphism of R. It is shown that if R is a ring satisfying descending chain condition on right annihilators then R[[x;α]] is left APP if and only if for any sequence (b0, b1, ....

Using the idea of prime and semiprime bi-ideals of rings, the concept of prime and semiprime generalized bi-ideals of rings is introduced, which is an extension of the concept of prime and semiprime bi-ideals of rings and some interesting characterizations of prime and semiprime generalized bi-ideals are obtained. Also, we give the relationship between the Baer radical and prime and semiprime g...