Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to study the commutative pseudomeadows, the structure which is defined in the same way as commutative meadows, except that the existence of a multiplicative identity is not required. We extend the characterization of finite commutative meadows, given by I. Bethke, P. Rodenburg, and A. Sevenster in their paper (2015), to the case of commutative pseudomeadows with finitely many idempotents. We also extend the well-known characterization of general commutative meadows as the subdirect products of fields to the case of commutative pseudomeadows. Finally, we investigate localizations of commutative pseudomeadows.
Keywords: absolutely flat ring; direct product of fields; idempotent; meadow; pseudomeadow; pseudoring; subdirect product of fields; von Neumann regular ring
DOI: DOI 10.14712/1213-7243.2024.014
AMS Subject Classification: 08B26 08A70 08A99 13M99 68Q65 08A05 08A70