Rings whose nilpotents form a multiplicative set

摘要

Nilpotents in Armendariz and abelian -regular rings are multiplicatively closed. However, this fact need not hold in many kinds of rings. This article concerns a class of rings whose nilpotents are closed under multiplication. Rings contained in this class are said to be nilpotent-closed, and the structure of nilpotent-closed rings is investigated in relation with various situations which happen ordinarily in the study of noncommutative ring theory. In the procedure, various sorts of rings are investigated, so that they are nilpotent-closed. We also study familiar conditions under which nilpotents in nilpotent-closed rings form a subring.