On a Hereditary Radical Property Relating to the Reducedness

Abstract

In this note, a hereditary radical property, called homomorphically reduced rings, is introduced, observed, and applied. The dual concept of this property is also studied with the help of Courter, proving that any ring R (possibly without identity) has an ideal S such that S/K is not homomorphically reduced for each proper ideal K of S; and if L is an ideal of R with L ⊊ S, then L/H is homomorphically reduced for some ideal H of R with H ⊊ L. The concept of the homomorphical reducedness is shown to be equivalent to the left (right) weak regularity and the (strong) regularity for one-sided duo rings. It is proved that homomorphically reduced rings have several useful properties similar to those of (weakly) regular rings. It is proved that the homomorphical reducedness can go up to classical quotient rings. It is shown that if R is a reduced right Ore ring with the ascending chain condition (ACC) for annihilator ideals, then the maximal right quotient ring of R is strongly regular (hence homomorphically reduced).