We study almost F-preenvelopes in the category of rings, for a significative class F of commutative rings. We completely identify those rings which have an almost F-preenvelope when F is the class of fields, semisimple rings, integer domains and local rings. We show that rings with Krull dimension zero have (almost) V-preenvelopes, where V is the class of von Neumann regular rings. Mathematics ...

This paper studies the multiplicative ideal structure of commutative rings in which every finitely generated ideal is quasi-projective. Section 2 provides some preliminaries on quasi-projective modules over commutative rings. Section 3 investigates the correlation with well-known Prüfer conditions; namely, we prove that this class of rings stands strictly between the two classes of arithmetical...

The concept of a zero-divisor graph of a commutative ring was first introduced in Beck (1988), and later redefined in Anderson and Livingston (1999). Redmond (2002) further extended this concept to the noncommutative case, introducing several definitions of a zero-divisor graph of a noncommutative ring. Recently, the diameter and girth of polynomial and power series rings over a commutative rin...

First order conditions are given which are necessary for a commutative regular ring to have a prime integrally closed extension. If the ring is countable these conditions are also sufficient. In [8] an example was given of a commutative regular ring with no prime model extension to a commutative integrally closed regular ring. In this paper we give (in §2) first order conditions which are neces...

This article explores several extensions of the Prüfer domain notion to rings with zero divisors. These extensions include semihereditary rings, rings with weak global dimension less than or equal to 1, arithmetical rings, Gaussian rings, locally Prüfer rings, strongly Prüfer rings, and Prüfer rings. The renewed interest in these properties, due to their connection to Kaplansky’s Conjecture, ha...

In [5] and [6], a nil clean ring was defined as a ring for which every element is the sum of a nilpotent and an idempotent. In this short article we characterize nil clean commutative group rings.

Let M be an infinite unitary module over a commutative ring R with identity. Then M is called a Jónsson module provided every proper submodule of M has smaller cardinality than M. These modules have been studied by several algebraists, including Robert Gilmer, Bill Heinzer, and the author. In this note, we recall the major results on Jónsson modules to bring the reader up to speed on current re...

Let JR be a commutative ring with identity of finite (Krull) dimension n0, and for each positive integer /c, let nk be the dimension of the polynomial ring R = R[XU . . . , Xk] in k indeterminates over R. The sequence {wjiio * Ud the dimension sequence for R, and the sequence {di}fLl9 where dt = nt — ni_1 for each i, is called the difference sequence for R. We are concerned with a determination...

The annihilating-ideal graph of a commutative ring $R$ is denoted by $AG(R)$, whose vertices are all nonzero ideals of $R$ with nonzero annihilators and two distinct vertices $I$ and $J$ are adjacent if and only if $IJ=0$. In this article, we completely characterize rings $R$ when $gr(AG(R))neq 3$.