Characteristic of semirings #
This file collects some fundamental results on the characteristic of rings that don't need the extra
imports of CharP/Lemmas.lean
.
As such, we can probably reorganize and find a better home for most of these lemmas.
If a ring R
is of characteristic p
, then for any prime number q
different from p
,
it is not zero in R
.
We have 2 ≠ 0
in a nontrivial ring whose characteristic is not 2
.
Characteristic ≠ 2
and nontrivial implies that -1 ≠ 1
.
Characteristic ≠ 2
in a domain implies that -a = a
iff a = 0
.
The characteristic of the product of rings is the least common multiple of the characteristics of the two rings.
The characteristic of the product of two rings of the same characteristic is the same as the characteristic of the rings
If two integers from {0, 1, -1}
result in equal elements in a ring R
that is nontrivial and of characteristic not 2
, then they are equal.