Simplicity of Partial Skew Group Rings of Abelian Groups

Abstract

AbstractLet A be a ring with local units, E a set of local units for A, G an abelian group, and α a partial action of G by ideals of A that contain local units. We show that A*αG is simple if and only if A is G-simple and the center of the corner eδ0(A*αGe)eδ0 is a field for all e ∊ E. We apply the result to characterize simplicity of partial skew group rings in two cases, namely for partial skew group rings arising from partial actions by clopen subsets of a compact set and partial actions on the set level.