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Primitive central idempotent

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A nonzero central idempotent is primitive central if it is not a sum of two nonzero orthogonal central idempotents. For an Artinian ring, it determines a block of an Artinian algebra. This differs from a primitive idempotent in the whole ring: for a matrix algebra of size greater than one over a field, 1 is primitive central but is a sum of diagonal idempotents.

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