Semisimple Artinian ring
This article defines a property of commutative unital rings; a property that can be evaluated for a commutative unital ring
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Definition
Symbol-free definition
A commutative unital ring (or any commutative ring) is termed semisimple if it satisfies the following equivalent conditions:
- The Jacobson radical (viz the intersection of its maximal ideals) is trivial
- It is a subdirect product of fields
- It is a direct product of fields