andy1224 Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 I'm not really sure how to approach the following: Let A be a commutative ring for which aA=A for all a not equal to 0. prove A has no zero divisors. any ideas?
Tom Mattson Posted May 18, 2007 Posted May 18, 2007 That can't be the complete problem statement. Where do A and a come from? Do they both belong to the commutative ring? And are you sure that aA=A for all a not equal to zero? Seems to me it would make a lot more sense if it were for all A not equal to zero. The way you've worded it we get the following. aA=A aAA-1=AA-1 a1=1 a=1 Mind you, that's a=1 for all a not equal to zero. That doesn't make much sense to me.
Country Boy Posted July 6, 2007 Posted July 6, 2007 Tom, I would interpret this to mean that A is the ring and a some member of A. aA= {ab| b contained in A}. If it is true that aA= A for all a, then x-> ax is a one-to-one mapping from A onto aA. If a were a zero-divisor, then there exist b such that ab= 0= a0, so that the mapping is not one-to-one.
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