Primary 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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The property of being an ideal for which the quotient ring has this property is: primary ideal

Definition

Symbol-free definition

A commutative unital ring is termed a primary ring if whenever the product of two elements in it is zero, either the first element is zero, or the second element is nilpotent.

Definition with symbols

A commutative unital ring $R$ is termed a primary ring is whenever $ab=0$ in $R$, then either $a=0$ or there exists a $n$ such that $b^{n}=0$.

Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

• Field
• Integral domain