Quasi-Armendariz generalized power series rings

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a ring, [Formula: see text] a strictly ordered monoid and [Formula: see text] a monoid homomorphism. The skew generalized power series ring [Formula: see text] is a common generalization of (skew) polynomial rings, (skew) power series rings, (skew) Laurent polynomial rings, (skew) group rings, and Mal’cev–Neumann Laurent series rings. We initiate the study of the [Formula: see text]-quasi-Armendariz condition on [Formula: see text], a generalization of the standard quasi-Armendariz condition from polynomials to skew generalized power series. The class of quasi-Armendariz rings includes semiprime rings, Armendariz rings, right (left) p.q.-Baer rings and right (left) PP rings. The [Formula: see text]-quasi-Armendariz rings are closed under direct sums, upper triangular matrix rings, full matrix rings and Morita invariance. The [Formula: see text] formal upper triangular matrix rings of this class are characterized. We conclude some characterizations for a skew generalized power series ring to be semiprime, quasi-Baer, generalized quasi-Baer, primary, nilary, reflexive, ideal-symmetric and left AIP. Examples to illustrate and delimit the theory are provided.