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Commutative Rings with Finitely Generated Multiplicative Semigroup
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Commutative Rings with Finitely Generated Multiplicative Semigroup

D.D Anderson and J Stickles
SemiGroup Forum, Vol.60(3), pp.436-443
05/2000
DOI: 10.1007/s002339910035

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Abstract

be a commutative ring not necessarily with identity. J.R. Isbell showed that if (R, ·) is finitely generated, then R is actually finite. We give a simple ring-theoretic proof of this result. We show that (R, ·) is a subsemigroup of a cyclic semigroup if and only if R is finite with R 2=0, but that any countable ring R with R 2=0 has (R,·) as a subsemigroup of a doubly generated semigroup. We also characterize the commutative rings R with (R, ·) generated by two or fewer elements.

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