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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 85 4 c Solution by
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Maximal right ideals of correspond to maximal right ideals of , all of which contain . Their intersection in the quotient is zero. Hence is a right Artinian ring with zero Jacobson radical, and part (a) makes it semisimple.
Part (b) gives the finite radical filtrationEach factor is annihilated by , so it is a right module over . Every module over a semisimple ring is semisimple: a free module is a direct sum of simple summands of copies of the regular module, and a quotient of a semisimple module is again semisimple, because the images of its simple summands are either zero or simple and span the quotient. A maximal independent family of these simple images spans: any simple image not contained in the sum intersects it trivially and could be added. Each factor is also Artinian, as a subquotient of . A semisimple Artinian module has only finitely many simple summands, since an infinite direct sum would give a descending chain by successively deleting summands. Consequently every factor has finite module length.
Concatenating composition series of these finitely many factors makes a module of finite module length. Such a module satisfies both chain conditions, since every strict change consumes a positive amount of length. Therefore is right Noetherian. This is the Hopkins-Levitzki theorem, obtained from the two preceding results rather than invoked in their proofs.
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