Associating to each pre-order on the indices 1; :::;n the corresponding structural matrix ring, or incidence algebra, embeds the lattice of n-element pre-orders into the lattice of n n matrix rings. Rings within the order-convex hull of the embedding, i.e. matrix rings that contain the ring of diagonal matrices, can be viewed as incidence algebras of ideal-valued, generalized pre-order relation...

A skew generalized power series ring R[[S, ω]] consists of all functions from a strictly ordered monoid S to a ring R whose support contains neither infinite descending chains nor infinite antichains, with pointwise addition, and with multiplication given by convolution twisted by an action ω of the monoid S on the ring R. Special cases of the skew generalized power series ring construction are...

we introduce the class of “right almost v-rings” which is properly between the classes of right v-rings and right good rings. a ring r is called a right almost v-ring if every simple r-module is almost injective. it is proved that r is a right almost v-ring if and only if for every r-module m, any complement of every simple submodule of m is a direct summand. moreover, r is a right almost v-rin...

A large class of MDS linear codes is constructed. These are endowed with an efficient decoding algorithm. Both the definition and design their algorithm only require from Linear Algebra methods, making them fully accessible for everyone. Thus, first part paper develops a direct presentation by means parity-check matrices, rests upon matrix maps manipulations. The somewhat more sophisticated mat...