Nil idealIn mathematics, more specifically ring theory, a left, right or two-sided ideal of a ring is said to be a nil ideal if each of its elements is nilpotent. The nilradical of a commutative ring is an example of a nil ideal; in fact, it is the ideal of the ring maximal with respect to the property of being nil. Unfortunately the set of nil elements does not always form an ideal for noncommutative rings. Nil ideals are still associated with interesting open questions, especially the unsolved Köthe conjecture.
Nilpotent idealIn mathematics, more specifically ring theory, an ideal I of a ring R is said to be a nilpotent ideal if there exists a natural number k such that I k = 0. By I k, it is meant the additive subgroup generated by the set of all products of k elements in I. Therefore, I is nilpotent if and only if there is a natural number k such that the product of any k elements of I is 0. The notion of a nilpotent ideal is much stronger than that of a nil ideal in many classes of rings.
Glossary of ring theoryRing theory is the branch of mathematics in which rings are studied: that is, structures supporting both an addition and a multiplication operation. This is a glossary of some terms of the subject. For the items in commutative algebra (the theory of commutative rings), see glossary of commutative algebra. For ring-theoretic concepts in the language of modules, see also Glossary of module theory. For specific types of algebras, see also: Glossary of field theory and Glossary of Lie groups and Lie algebras.
Radical de JacobsonEn algèbre, le radical de Jacobson d'un anneau commutatif est l'intersection de ses idéaux maximaux. Cette notion est due à Nathan Jacobson qui le premier en a fait l'étude systématique. Un élément x appartient au radical de Jacobson de l'anneau A si et seulement si 1 + ax est inversible pour tout a de A. Notons J le radical de Jacobson de l'anneau commutatif A et exploitons le fait que (d'après le théorème de Krull) 1 + ax est non inversible si et seulement s'il appartient à un idéal maximal.
