Minimal Ideals of Jordan Systems

We show that minimal ideals of Jordan systems (algebras, triple systems, and pairs) are either simple or trivial, so answering the question posed by Nam and McCrimmon in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 88 (4) (1983), 579-583.

(Updated version 17 Nov 2006, to appear in Invent. Math.)

J. A. Anquela < anque@orion.ciencias.uniovi.es >

T. Cortés < cortes@orion.ciencias.uniovi.es >