McCOY PROPERTY OF SKEW LAURENT POLYNOMIALS AND POWER SERIES RINGS

Abstract

One of the important properties of commutative rings, proved by McCoy [Remarks on divisors of zero, Amer. Math. Monthly49(5) (1942) 286–295], is that if two nonzero polynomials annihilate each other over a commutative ring then each polynomial has a nonzero annihilator in the base ring. Nielsen [Semi-commutativity and the McCoy condition, J. Algebra298(1) (2006) 134–141] generalizes this property to non-commutative rings. Let M be a monoid and σ be an automorphism of a ring R. For the continuation of McCoy property of non-commutative rings, in this paper, we extend the McCoy's theorem to skew Laurent power series ring R[[x, x-1; σ]] and skew monoid ring R * M over general non-commutative rings. Constructing various examples, we classify how these skew versions of McCoy property behaves under various ring extensions. Moreover, we investigate relations between these properties and other standard ring-theoretic properties such as zip rings and rings with Property (A). As a consequence we extend and unify several known results related to McCoy rings.