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Cyclic Generalized Galois Rings

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Pages 4467-4478 | Received 11 Aug 2004, Published online: 01 Feb 2007
 

ABSTRACT

The role played by fields in relation to Galois Rings corresponds to semifields if the associativity is dropped, that is, if we consider Generalized Galois Rings instead of (associative) Galois rings. If S is a Galois ring and pS is the set of zero divisors in S, S* = S\ pS is known to be a finite {multiplicative} Abelian group that is cyclic if, and only if, S is a finite field, or S = ℤ/nℤ with n = 4 or n = p r for some odd prime p. Without associativity, S* is not a group, but a loop. The question of when this loop can be generated by a single element is addressed in this article.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Partially supported by MEC04-MTM2004-08115-C04-01.

Communicated by I. Shestakov.

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