This paper owes its origins to Pere Menal and his work on Von Neumann Regular (= VNR) rings, especially his work listed in the bibliography on when the tensor product K = A ⊗K B of two algebras over a field k are right self-injective (= SI) or VNR. Pere showed that then A and B both enjoy the same property, SI or VNR, and furthermore that either A and B are algebraic algebras over k (see [M]). This is connected with a lemma in the proof of the Hilbert Nullstellensatz, namely a finite ring extension...

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