Primitivity in Jordan Systems is Ubiquitous

The main result of the paper asserts that if a Jordan pair is (+) or (-)-primitive at some nonzero element, then it is (+) and (-)-primitive at any nonzero element. Also, if a Jordan triple system is primitive at some nonzero element, then it is primitive at any nonzero element. As a tool, similar results concerning one-sided primitivity and *-primitivity of associative pairs and triple systems are established. Equivalences between our definitions of primitivity and some other appearing in the literature are also obtained as a consequence.

(This paper has appeared in J. Algebra 202 (1998) 295-314)


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

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