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Jacobson radical

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Jacobson radical (plural Jacobson radicals)

  1. (mathematics, ring theory) The operation that produces (from a given ring) the ideal of elements which annihilates all simple modules (over the given ring); the result of this operation. The Jacobson radical of a ring R is denoted J(R).