On subdirect decomposition and varieties of some rings with involution.
It is known that the existence of the group inverse a # of a ring element a is equivalent to the invertibility of a 2 a − + 1 − aa −, independently of the choice of the von Neumann inverse a − of a. In this paper, we relate the Drazin index of a to the Drazin index of a 2 a − + 1 − aa −. We give an alternative characterization when considering matrices over an algebraically closed field. We close with some questions and remarks.
Let A be a finite-dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field with radical square zero, and such that all simple A-modules have dimension at most two. We give a characterization of those A that have finitely many conjugacy classes of left ideals.
Associative algebras of fixed dimension over algebraically closed fields of fixed characteristic are considered. It is proved that the class of algebras of tame representation type is axiomatizable. Moreover, finite axiomatizability of this class is equivalent to the conjecture that the algebras of tame representation type form a Zariski-open subset in the variety of algebras.