In this paper we study certain families of right ideals in noncommutative rings, called right Oka families, generalizing previous work on commutative rings by T.Y. Lam and the author. As in the commutative case, we prove that the right Oka families in a ring R correspond bijectively to the classes of cyclic right R-modules that are closed under extensions. We define completely prime right ideal...

A firm issues a convertible bond. At each subsequent time, the bondholder must decide whether to continue to hold the bond, thereby collecting coupons, or to convert it to stock. The firm may at any time call the bond. Because calls and conversions often occur far from maturity, it is not unreasonable to model this situation with a perpetual convertible bond, i.e., a convertible coupon-paying b...

Let R be a nil ring. We prove that primitive ideals in the polynomial ring R[x] in one indeterminate over R are of the form I [x] for some ideals I of R. All considered rings are associative but not necessarily have identities. Köthe’s conjecture states that a ring without nil ideals has no one-sided nil ideals. It is equivalent [4] to the assertion that polynomial rings over nil rings are Jaco...

In this paper, we characterize when the radical $\sqrt{I}$ of every interior ideal $I$ a semigroup $S$ is subsemigroup $S$. Also, (or right or left quasi-ideal bi-ideal subsemigroup) an bi-ideal)