Boolean ring
A Boolean ring is a ring that has a multiplicative identity, and in which every element is idempotent, that is,
Boolean rings are necessarily commutative (http://planetmath.org/CommutativeRing). Also, if is a Boolean ring, then for each .
Boolean rings are equivalent to Boolean algebras (or Boolean lattices (http://planetmath.org/BooleanLattice)). Given a Boolean ring , define and and for all , then is a Boolean algebra. Given a Boolean algebra , define and , then is a Boolean ring. In particular, the category of Boolean rings is isomorphic to the category of Boolean lattices.
Examples
As mentioned above, every Boolean algebra can be considered as a Boolean ring. In particular, if is any set, then the power set forms a Boolean ring, with intersection as multiplication and symmetric difference as addition.
Let be the ring with the operations being coordinate-wise. Then we can check:
the four elements that form the ring are idempotent. So is Boolean.
Title | Boolean ring |
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Canonical name | BooleanRing |
Date of creation | 2013-03-22 12:27:28 |
Last modified on | 2013-03-22 12:27:28 |
Owner | yark (2760) |
Last modified by | yark (2760) |
Numerical id | 24 |
Author | yark (2760) |
Entry type | Definition |
Classification | msc 06E99 |
Classification | msc 03G05 |
Related topic | Idempotency |
Related topic | BooleanLattice |
Related topic | BooleanIdeal |