International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 26 (2001), Issue 8, Pages 457-465
doi:10.1155/S0161171201005713
  
     
          
          Generalized periodic and generalized Boolean rings
          
            Howard E. Bell1
             and Adil Yaqub2
          
          1Department of Mathematics, Brock University, Ontario, Street Catharines L2S 3A1, Canada
          2Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, CA, USA
          
          Abstract
We prove that a generalized periodic, as well as a generalized Boolean, ring is either commutative or periodic. We also prove that a generalized Boolean ring with central idempotents must be nil or commutative. We further consider conditions which imply the commutativity of a generalized periodic, or a generalized Boolean, ring.