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We study radicals which coincide on artinian rings with Jacobson semisimple rings or equivalently with von Neumann regular rings. Exact lower and upper bounds for strong coincidence are given. For weak coincidence the exact lower bound is that for strong coincidence. We determine the smallest homomorphically closed class which contains all radicals coinciding in the weak sense with the von Neumann regular radical on artinian rings, but we do not know even the existence of the upper bound for weak coincidence. If a radical γ coincides with the von Neumann regular radical on artinian rings in the strong sense, then γ(A) is a direct summand inA for every aritian ringA.
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Research carried out within the Austro-Hungarian Bilateral Intergovernmental Cooperation Program A-31. Research partially supported by Hungarian National Foundations for Scientific Research Grant No. T4265
The second author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland
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Mlitz, R., Sands, A.D. & Wiegandt, R. Radicals coinciding with the von Neumann regular radical on artinian rings. Monatshefte für Mathematik 125, 229–239 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317316
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317316