Search Results
Search type | Search syntax |
---|---|
Tags | [tag] |
Exact | "words here" |
Author |
user:1234 user:me (yours) |
Score |
score:3 (3+) score:0 (none) |
Answers |
answers:3 (3+) answers:0 (none) isaccepted:yes hasaccepted:no inquestion:1234 |
Views | views:250 |
Code | code:"if (foo != bar)" |
Sections |
title:apples body:"apples oranges" |
URL | url:"*.example.com" |
Saves | in:saves |
Status |
closed:yes duplicate:no migrated:no wiki:no |
Types |
is:question is:answer |
Exclude |
-[tag] -apples |
For more details on advanced search visit our help page |
Non-commutative rings and algebras, non-associative algebras, universal algebra and lattice theory, linear algebra, semigroups. For questions specific to commutative algebra (that is, rings that are assumed both associative and commutative), rather use the tag ac.commutative-algebra.
5
votes
Accepted
Countably compact Boolean algebras versus distributivity
There are many countably distributive complete Boolean algebras, and this is an important concept in forcing. For example, the canonical forcing to add a Cohen subset (or any number of Cohen subsets) …
32
votes
Accepted
Are the real numbers isomorphic to a nontrivial ultraproduct of fields?
The answer is no, because such ultrapowers are always $\aleph_1$-saturated, but $\mathbb{R}$ is not.
More concretely, the ultraproduct will be an ordered field with uncountable cofinality — every cou …
7
votes
1
answer
490
views
Normal form for terms in language with two ring structures
Suppose I have two different ring structures on the same domain $\langle R,+,\cdot,0,1\rangle$, $\langle R,\oplus,\otimes,\bar 0,\bar 1\rangle$ and I throw the structures together into a single common …
76
votes
9
answers
6k
views
Can we unify addition and multiplication into one binary operation? To what extent can we fi...
The question is the extent to which we can unify addition
and multiplication, realizing them as terms in a single
underlying binary operation. I have a number of questions.
Is there a binary operati …
1
vote
Rational exponential expressions
I don't have an answer to the one-variable decision
question that you asked.
But you did introduce multi-variable
expressions, and there are some fascinating results on the
multi-variable analogue of …
24
votes
Does every set admit a ring structure or a field structure?
In ZFC, every nonempty cardinality is the cardinality of a ring. For finite cardinalities, we have $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ as you mentioned. For infinite cardinalities, this is an immediate consequen …
2
votes
Decidability of matrix algebra
If you want to determine truth in this language with real or complex entries, then Yes. All this is expressible in the language of real-closed fields, simply by using components, and is therefore expr …
10
votes
How much are reduced powers different?
Easy differences arise if one allows principal ultrafilters, since the ultrapower of $X$ by a principal filter is canonically isomorphic to $X$, but other ultrapowers are not. Another easy difference …
6
votes
Basic Algebraic Applications of Stationary Sets?
Stationary sets are exactly the positive-measure sets with respect to the club filter, which is a very natural measure on the subsets of $\omega_1$ or on higher cardinals with uncountable cofinality. …
37
votes
What do you do if you believe a problem is undecidable?
The first thing to say is that for a statement to be independent
of some axioms means really two things, namely, that it is
consistent with those axioms, and also that the negation of the
statement is …
12
votes
Accepted
Is there a Tychonoff space $X$ of cardinality not of the form $2^\alpha$ such that $|C(X)| =...
The answer is yes.
Let $\kappa$ be any singular strong limit cardinal of uncountable cofinality, such as the cardinal $\beth_{\omega_1}$ for a specific example, and let $X=\kappa+1$, the ordinals up …
3
votes
Accepted
Two different products of filters
If all the $a_i$ are principal ultrafilters on sets with at least two elements, then $\Pi_1$ will also be principal, since it concentrates on the singleton that picks out the base of each $a_i$. But $ …
14
votes
Ring with three binary operations
An exponential field is a field with an additional unary operation $x\mapsto E(x)$ extending the usual idea of exponentiation. So it satisfies the usual law of exponents $E(a+b)=E(a)\cdot E(b)$ and al …
20
votes
Accepted
Nice algebraic statements independent from ZF + V=L (constructibility)
Let me address the part of your question seeking algebraic statements independent of ZFC+V=L.
The basic situation is that in set theory our tools are not so flexible for finding statements
independen …
2
votes
How should one look at the set of compatible ring structures on a given group?
In the case of a countable group, this kind of thing often arises in the subject of Borel equivalence relation theory, which has been considered in a few MO questions (see also links in this answer). …