Semiprimitive Ring - Examples

Examples

  • The ring of integers is semiprimitive, but not semisimple.
  • Every primitive ring is semiprimitive.
  • The product of two fields is semiprimitive but not primitive.
  • Every von Neumann regular ring is semiprimitive.

Jacobson himself has defined a ring to be "semisimple" if and only if it is a subdirect product of simple rings, (Jacobson 1989, p. 203). However, this is a stricter notion, since the endomorphism ring of a countably infinite dimensional vector space is semiprimitive, but not a subdirect product of simple rings, (Lam 1995, p. 42).

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