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.
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- ⋯ = ⋯
The characteristic of the product of two rings of the same characteristic is the same as the characteristic of the rings
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- ⋯ = ⋯
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- ⋯ = ⋯
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- ⋯ = ⋯
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- ⋯ = ⋯
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- ⋯ = ⋯
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.