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单词 AdditiveInverseOfTheZeroInARing
释义

additive inverse of the zero in a ring


In any ring R, the additive identity is unique and usually denoted by 0. It is called the zero or neutral element of the ring and it satisfies the zero property under multiplicationPlanetmathPlanetmath. The additive inverse of the zero must be zero itself. For suppose otherwise: that there is some nonzero cR so that 0+c=0. For any element aR we have a+0=a since 0 is the additive identity. Now, because addition is associative we have

0=a+0
=a+(0+c)
=(a+0)+c
=a+c.

Since a is any arbitrary element in the ring, this would imply that (nonzero) c is an additive identity, contradicting the uniqueness of the additive identity. And so our suppostition that 0 has a nonzero inverseMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath cannot be true. So the additive inverse of the zero is zero itself. We can write this as -0=0, where the - sign means “additive inverse”.

Yes, for sure, there are other ways to come to this result, and we encourage you to have a bit of fun describing your own reasons for why the additive inverse of the zero of the ring must be zero itself.

For example, since 0 is the neutral element of the ring this means that 0+0=0. From this it immediately follows that -0=0.

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