NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY

M.Phil/Ph.D Part I II (C) (NR)

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
M.Phil/Ph.D Part- I

Examination Syllabus (w.e.f. 01-01-2014)

PAPER II (C): Near Rings II (NR)

Unit I
Primitive Near Rings:
a) General:
1) Definitions and elementary results
2) The centralizer
3) Independence and density.
b) 0- primitive near - rings
c) 1- primitive near - rings
d) 2- primitive near.- rings:
1) 2 - primitive near - rings,
2) 2 - primitive near - rings with identity,
3) 2 - primitive zero - symmetric near - rings
with identity and a minimal left ideal.
4) 2 - primitive near - rings with identity and
minimum condition.
(Chapter 4)
Unit III
Distributively Generated Near Rings:
a) Elementary concepts
b) Some axiomatics
c) Constructions of d.g. near rings,
d) Distributively generated near-rings with
finiteness conditions,
g) Structure theory.
[Sections (a), (b), (c), (d) & (g) of Chapter -6]

Unit II
Radical Theory
a) Jacobson - type radicals: Common theory.
1) Definitions and characterizations the
radicals
2) Radicals of related near rings.
3) Semi simplicity.
b) Jacobson - type radicals: special theory.
1) Y 0 and Y 1 / 2
2) Y 1
3) Y 2
c) The nil radical.
d) The prime radical.
e) Concluding remarks.
(Chapter 5)
Unit IV
Transformation Near Rings:
a) M 0H
b) M andM 0 .
[Sections (a) & (b) of Chapter -7

Prescribed Book:
Near-Rings, The Theory and its Applications by Gunter Pilz, North-Holland Publishing
Company, AMSTERDAM, Revised Edition 1983.