Abstract:A method due to Fay and Walls for associating a factorization system with a radical is examined for associative rings. It is shown that a factorization system results if and only if the radical is strict and supernilpotent. For groups and non-associative rings, no radical defines a factorization system.
Keywords: radical class, factorization system
AMS Subject Classification: 16A21, 18A20