Tagged: zero divisor

Problem 598

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1$.

Prove that if every proper ideal of $R$ is a prime ideal, then $R$ is a field.

Problem 589

Let $R$ be an integral domain and let $I$ be an ideal of $R$.
Is the quotient ring $R/I$ an integral domain?

Problem 542

Let $R$ be a ring with $1\neq 0$. Let $a, b\in R$ such that $ab=1$.

(a) Prove that if $a$ is not a zero divisor, then $ba=1$.

(b) Prove that if $b$ is not a zero divisor, then $ba=1$.

Problem 531

(a) Let $F$ be a field. Show that $F$ does not have a nonzero zero divisor.

(b) Let $R$ and $S$ be nonzero rings with identities.
Prove that the direct product $R\times S$ cannot be a field.

Problem 409

Let $R$ be a ring with $1$. An element of the $R$-module $M$ is called a torsion element if $rm=0$ for some nonzero element $r\in R$.
The set of torsion elements is denoted
$\Tor(M)=\{m \in M \mid rm=0 \text{ for some nonzero} r\in R\}.$

(a) Prove that if $R$ is an integral domain, then $\Tor(M)$ is a submodule of $M$.
(Remark: an integral domain is a commutative ring by definition.) In this case the submodule $\Tor(M)$ is called torsion submodule of $M$.

(b) Find an example of a ring $R$ and an $R$-module $M$ such that $\Tor(M)$ is not a submodule.

(c) If $R$ has nonzero zero divisors, then show that every nonzero $R$-module has nonzero torsion element.

Problem 220

Let $R$ be a commutative ring. Suppose that $P$ is a prime ideal of $R$ containing no nonzero zero divisor. Then show that the ring $R$ is an integral domain.

Problem 192

Show that any finite integral domain $R$ is a field.