Radical and semisimple classes with specified properties

Abstract

Conditions are given on a radical (semisimple) property to ensure the existence of a construction for the smallest radical (semisimple) class with the property, containing a given class of rings. This generalizes earlier results on smallest hereditary or strongly hereditary radical classes, and hereditary semisimple classes. In the last section certain classes of rings are shown to admit a construction for the largest radical (semisimple) class contained in the given class. This leads to theorems on largest radical (semisimple) classes dual to the already established smallest theorems.