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Title
The rings which are Boolean
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- Department of Algebra and Geometry, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Abstract
We study unitary rings of characteristic 2 satisfying identity for some natural number p. We characterize several infinite families of these rings which are Boolean, i.e., every element is idempotent. For example, it is in the case if or or for a suitable natural number n. Some other (more general) cases are solved for p expressed in the form or where q is a natural number and .
Keywords
Boolean ring, unitary ring, characteristic 2
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