unities of ring and subring
Let be a ring and a proper subring of it. Then there exists five cases in all concerning the possible unities of and .
- 1.
and have a common unity.
- 2.
has a unity but does not.
- 3.
and both have their own non-zero unities but these are distinct.
- 4.
has no unity but has a non-zero unity.
- 5.
Neither nor have unity.
Note: In the cases 3 and 4, the unity of the subring must be a zero divisor of .
Examples
- 1.
The ring and its subring have the commonunity 1.
- 2.
The subring of even integers of the ring has no unity.
- 3.
Let be the subring of all pairs of the ring for which the operations
“” and “” are defined componentwise (i.e. etc.). Then and have the unities and , respectively.
- 4.
Let be the subring of all pairs of the ring (operations componentwise). Now has the unity but has no unity.
- 5.
Neither the ring (operations componentwise) nor its subring consisting of the pairs have unity.