Definition:Boolean Ring
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This page is about Boolean Ring in the context of Abstract Algebra. For other uses, see Ring.
Definition
Let $\struct {R, +, \circ}$ be a ring.
Then $R$ is called a Boolean ring if and only if $R$ is an idempotent ring with unity.
Boolean Ring Axioms
More abstractly, a Boolean ring is an algebraic structure $\struct {R, *, \circ}$ subject to the Boolean ring axioms:
\((\text A 0)\) | $:$ | Closure under addition | \(\ds \forall a, b \in R:\) | \(\ds a * b \in R \) | |||||
\((\text A 1)\) | $:$ | Associativity of addition | \(\ds \forall a, b, c \in R:\) | \(\ds \paren {a * b} * c = a * \paren {b * c} \) | |||||
\((\text A 2)\) | $:$ | Commutativity of addition | \(\ds \forall a, b \in R:\) | \(\ds a * b = b * a \) | |||||
\((\text A 3)\) | $:$ | Identity element for addition: the zero | \(\ds \exists 0_R \in R: \forall a \in R:\) | \(\ds a * 0_R = a = 0_R * a \) | |||||
\((\text {AC} 2)\) | $:$ | Characteristic 2 for addition: | \(\ds \forall a \in R:\) | \(\ds a * a = 0_R \) | |||||
\((\text M 0)\) | $:$ | Closure under product | \(\ds \forall a, b \in R:\) | \(\ds a \circ b \in R \) | |||||
\((\text M 1)\) | $:$ | Associativity of product | \(\ds \forall a, b, c \in R:\) | \(\ds \paren {a \circ b} \circ c = a \circ \paren {b \circ c} \) | |||||
\((\text M 2)\) | $:$ | Identity element for product: the unity | \(\ds \exists 1_R \in R: \forall a \in R:\) | \(\ds 1_R \circ a = a = a \circ 1_R \) | |||||
\((\text {MI})\) | $:$ | Idempotence of product | \(\ds \forall a \in R:\) | \(\ds a \circ a = a \) | |||||
\((\text D)\) | $:$ | Product is distributive over addition | \(\ds \forall a, b, c \in R:\) | \(\ds a \circ \paren {b * c} = \paren {a \circ b} * \paren {a \circ c}, \) | |||||
\(\ds \paren {a * b} \circ c = \paren {a \circ c} * \paren {b \circ c} \) |
These criteria are called the Boolean ring axioms.
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Also defined as
Some sources use the (deprecated) name Boolean ring to mean what is better known as a Boolean algebra.
Others define it simply to mean what we have called an idempotent ring, not imposing that it have a unity.
Also see
- Results about Boolean rings can be found here.
Source of Name
This entry was named for George Boole.
Sources
- 1964: Steven A. Gaal: Point Set Topology ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction to Set Theory: $1$. Elementary Operations on Sets
- 2008: Paul Halmos and Steven Givant: Introduction to Boolean Algebras ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1$