SUBDIRECT IRREDUCIBILITY AND RADICALS

Abstract

We prove lemmas in Andrunakievich s-varieties on the transitivity of the relation “is an ideal of” and concerning subdirectly irreducible factor rings. Applying these lemmas we show that a Plotkin radical introduced in [8] has the ADS-property and is ideal hereditary. These lemmas are applicable in proving a subdirect decomposition for rings having an ideal with 0 antisimple radical. For Jordan algebras and near-rings (they do not form Andrunakievich varieties) we can prove a similar subdirect decomposition concerning ideals with 0 Brown-McCoy radical.