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Keywords:
partially ordered ring; Archimedean; nil radical; nilpotent
Summary:
Let $R$ be an Archimedean partially ordered ring in which the square of every element is positive, and $N(R)$ the set of all nilpotent elements of $R$. It is shown that $N(R)$ is the unique nil radical of $R$, and that $N(R)$ is locally nilpotent and even nilpotent with exponent at most $3$ when $R$ is 2-torsion-free. $R$ is without non-zero nilpotents if and only if it is 2-torsion-free and has zero annihilator. The results are applied on partially ordered rings in which every element $a$ is expressed as $a=a_1-a_2$ with positive $a_1$, $a_2$ satisfying $a_1a_2=a_2a_1=0$.
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