CHARACTERIZING THE NIL RADICAL OF A GAMMA RING

Abstract

The nil radical, N(M) of a Γ-ring M was defined by Coppage and Luh [3], and shown by Groenewald [4] to be a special radical. We define s-prime ideals of M and show that N(M) is equal to the intersection of the s-prime ideals of M. If R is a ring, the nil radical of R considered as a Γ-ring with Γ = R is equal to the upper nil radical of R. We also give a sufficient condition for the equality N(R)* = N(M), where R is the right operator ring of M, and N(R) is its upper nil radical.