Reticulation of Quasi-commutative Algebras

Document Type : Research Paper

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Faculty of Mathematics, Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

The commutator theory, developed by Fresee and McKenzie in the framework of a congruence-modular variety V, allows us to define the prime congruences of any algebra AV and the prime spectrum Spec(A) of A. The first systematic study of this spectrum can be found in a paper by Agliano, published in Universal Algebra (1993).

The reticulation of an algebra AV is a bounded distributive algebra L(A), whose prime spectrum (endowed with the Stone topology) is homeomorphic to Spec(A) (endowed with the topology defined by Agliano). In a recent paper, C. Mure\c{s}an and the author defined the reticulation for the algebras A in a semidegenerate congruence-modular variety V, satisfying the hypothesis (H): the set K(A) of compact congruences of A is closed under commutators. This theory does not cover the Belluce reticulation for non-commutative rings. In this paper we shall introduce the quasi-commutative algebras in a semidegenerate congruence-modular variety V as a generalization of the Belluce quasi-commutative rings. We define and study a notion of reticulation for the quasi-commutative algebras such that the Belluce reticulation for the quasi-commutative rings can be obtained as a particular case. We prove a characterization theorem for the quasi-commutative algebras and some transfer properties by means of the reticulation.

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