Ordered Rings - Part II

Michal Muzalewski

Warsaw University, Bialystok

Leslaw W. Szczerba

Siedlce University

Summary.

This series of papers is devoted to the notion of the ordered ring, and one of its most important cases: the notion of ordered field. It follows the results of [5]. The idea of the notion of order in the ring is based on that of positive cone i.e. the set of positive elements. Positive cone has to contain at least squares of all elements, and has to be closed under sum and product. Therefore the key notions of this theory are that of square, sum of squares, product of squares, etc. and finally elements generated from squares by means of sums and products. Part II contains classification of sums of such elements.

MML Identifier: O_RING_2

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