Jacobson Radical, Semiprimary

Semiprimary

The ring R is semiprimary if the jacobson radical J is nilpotent, and R/J is semisimple.

Recall that a ring is left semisimple iff it is right semisimple, and J is a two sided ideal, so we don't have to talk about left or right semiprimary. The ring is either semiprimary or it is not.

A semisimple ring is jacobson semisimple, and is trivially semiprimary.

Let R be left artinian with jacobson radical J. Recall that J is nilpotent. Now R/J is jacobson semisimple, and is left artinian courtesy of R, hence R/J is semisimple. This makes R semiprimary. Every artinian ring is semiprimary.

If you want a semiprimary ring that is not left artinian, let R be right artinian, but not left artinian. It is still semiprimary, but not left artinian.