Local-to-Global Inheritance of Primitivity in Jordan Algebras

We show that a strongly prime Jordan algebra having a primitive local algebra is primitive. As a tool, similar results concerning one-sided primitivity and *-primitivity of associative algebras are established.

(Has appeared in Arch. Math. 70 (1998), 219--227)

J. A. Anquela <anque@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es>

T. Cortes <cortes@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es>