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BASIC ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES
Subring algebras and ideals
Two-sided ideals and quotient rings
Condition for a non-unital ring to be unital
rngringbd
Metamath Proof Explorer
Description: A non-unital ring is unital if and only if there is a (two-sided) ideal
of the ring which is unital, and the quotient of the ring and the ideal
is unital. (Proposed by GL, 12-Feb-2025.) (Contributed by AV , 20-Feb-2025)
Ref
Expression
Hypotheses
rngringbd.r
⊢ ( 𝜑 → 𝑅 ∈ Rng )
rngringbd.i
⊢ ( 𝜑 → 𝐼 ∈ ( 2Ideal ‘ 𝑅 ) )
rngringbd.j
⊢ 𝐽 = ( 𝑅 ↾s 𝐼 )
rngringbd.u
⊢ ( 𝜑 → 𝐽 ∈ Ring )
rngringbd.q
⊢ 𝑄 = ( 𝑅 /s ( 𝑅 ~QG 𝐼 ) )
Assertion
rngringbd
⊢ ( 𝜑 → ( 𝑅 ∈ Ring ↔ 𝑄 ∈ Ring ) )
Proof
Step
Hyp
Ref
Expression
1
rngringbd.r
⊢ ( 𝜑 → 𝑅 ∈ Rng )
2
rngringbd.i
⊢ ( 𝜑 → 𝐼 ∈ ( 2Ideal ‘ 𝑅 ) )
3
rngringbd.j
⊢ 𝐽 = ( 𝑅 ↾s 𝐼 )
4
rngringbd.u
⊢ ( 𝜑 → 𝐽 ∈ Ring )
5
rngringbd.q
⊢ 𝑄 = ( 𝑅 /s ( 𝑅 ~QG 𝐼 ) )
6
1 2 3 4 5
rngringbdlem1
⊢ ( ( 𝜑 ∧ 𝑅 ∈ Ring ) → 𝑄 ∈ Ring )
7
1 2 3 4 5
rngringbdlem2
⊢ ( ( 𝜑 ∧ 𝑄 ∈ Ring ) → 𝑅 ∈ Ring )
8
6 7
impbida
⊢ ( 𝜑 → ( 𝑅 ∈ Ring ↔ 𝑄 ∈ Ring ) )