The first two papers of this series1 were primarily concerned with a closure operation on the lattice of right ideals of a ring and the resulting direct-sum representation of the ring in case the closure operation was atomic. These results generalize the classical structure theory of semisimple rings. The present paper studies the irreducible components encountered in the direct-sum representat...

We study the structure of 0-primitive near-rings and are able to answer an open question in the theory of minimal ideals in near-rings to the negative, namely if the heart of a zero symmetric subdirectly irreducible near-ring is subdirectly irreducible again. Also, we will be able to classify when a simple near-ring with an identity and containing a minimal left ideal is a Jacobson radical near...