Left Noetherian domain Ore lemma 2026-10-25
In a noncommutative domain that is a left Noetherian ring, two nonzero principal left ideals always intersect nontrivially. If , a relation first forces , then . Right cancellation of and repetition give all . Hence is an infinite direct sum of nonzero left ideals, whose finite partial sums violate the ascending chain condition. A nonzero member of supplies the equality with , proving the left Ore set condition for all nonzero elements.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 139 4 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A multiplicatively closed set is a left Ore set if for every and there are with . This condition gives common left annihilators, so is closed under addition and scalar multiplication in every module.
Conversely apply the assumed submodule property to . The element is -torsion, hence so is . Thus some satisfies , say , which is precisely the Ore condition.
Past exam of the non-commutative rings course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 a ii Solution 2026-10-25
We first prove that any two nonzero principal left ideals and intersect nontrivially. Suppose instead that . The nonzero left idealsthen form a direct sum. Indeed, take a finite relationIt impliesAs is a noncommutative domain and , this gives . Right cancellation of the nonzero element reduces the remaining relation to one of the same form with one fewer term. Repetition gives , proving the asserted direct sum.
Consequently its finite partial sums give a strictly ascending chain of left ideals, contradicting the ascending chain condition in a left Noetherian ring. Thus whenever . This is the left Noetherian domain Ore lemma.
Now take and . If , choose and . Otherwise chooseSince , the coefficient is nonzero and hence belongs to . This proves the left Ore set condition in all cases.
Past exam of the non-commutative rings course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 a i Solution 2026-10-25
A multiplicative subset is a left Ore set if for every and there are and withEquivalently, the subsets and intersect for each such pair. This is the common-left-multiple condition needed for Ore localization with denominators on the left. In a noncommutative domain, no extra condition concerning annihilation by denominators is needed, since all members of are regular elements of a ring.
Past exam of the non-commutative rings course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b Solution 2026-10-25
Use and . A putative left Ore set equality would beThe left side is a single word ending in , with coefficient . The right side is a finite linear combination of words ending in . Distinct words are linearly independent in the free associative algebra, so equality is impossible. ThereforeThe last letters matter because the denominators in the left Ore set equation occur on the right of the common left multiple.
Past exam of the non-commutative rings course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 d Solution 2026-10-25
Take . We first check that this noncommutative formal power series ring is a noncommutative domain. For nonzero , let be the smallest lengths of words with nonzero coefficients in , respectively. Their degree- and degree- parts are nonzero homogeneous polynomials in the free associative algebra.
Choose words with nonzero coefficients in . In , the coefficient of is the product of those two coefficients: a word of length has a unique splitting into a prefix of length and a suffix of length . This product is nonzero in . The degree- part of is exactly , since all lower parts of and vanish. Thus , proving that is a noncommutative domain.
By the defining property of the free associative algebra, there is a ring homomorphismThe same substitution defines a ring automorphism of , with inverse , . Composing this ring automorphism with the natural inclusion proves that is injective.
Finally,Their constant terms are , respectively, all nonzero. By the unit criterion for noncommutative formal power series proved in c, all four elements are units. Therefore and have every required property. The embedding changes the images of the generators, so the failure of the original monomial left Ore set in b presents no obstruction.