Commuting probability for subrings and quotient rings

Abstract

We prove that the commuting probability of a finite ring is no larger than the commuting probabilities of its subrings and quotients, and characterize when equality occurs in such a comparison.

Keywords

• Commuting probability,Subring,Quotient ring

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