Semireal rings

A semireal ring is a non-trivial commutative ring (with unit) in which -1 is not a sum of squares. Note that -1 does not make sense in a semiring.

For instance, linearly ordered fields are semireal, because sums of squares are positive and -1 is not. More generally, linearly ordered semirings in which a ≤ b → ∃ c, a + c = b holds, are semireal.

Main declaration

• IsSemireal: the predicate asserting that a commutative ring R is semireal.

References

• An introduction to real algebra, by T.Y. Lam. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 14(4): 767-814 (1984). lam_1984

class IsSemireal (R : Type u_1) [AddMonoid R] [Mul R] [One R] [Neg R] : Prop

A semireal ring is a non-trivial commutative ring (with unit) in which -1 is not a sum of squares. Note that -1 does not make sense in a semiring. Below we define the class IsSemireal R for all additive monoid R equipped with a multiplication, a multiplicative unit and a negation.

• non_trivial : 0 ≠ 1
• not_isSumSq_neg_one : ¬IsSumSq (-1)

theorem isSemireal_iff (R : Type u_1) [AddMonoid R] [Mul R] [One R] [Neg R] : IsSemireal R ↔ 0 ≠ 1 ∧ ¬IsSumSq (-1)

@[deprecated IsSemireal (since := "2024-08-09")]

def isSemireal (R : Type u_1) [AddMonoid R] [Mul R] [One R] [Neg R] : Prop

Alias of IsSemireal.

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A semireal ring is a non-trivial commutative ring (with unit) in which -1 is not a sum of squares. Note that -1 does not make sense in a semiring. Below we define the class IsSemireal R for all additive monoid R equipped with a multiplication, a multiplicative unit and a negation.

Equations

• isSemireal = IsSemireal

@[deprecated IsSemireal.not_isSumSq_neg_one (since := "2024-08-09")]

theorem isSemireal.neg_one_not_SumSq {R : Type u_1} {inst✝ : AddMonoid R} {inst✝¹ : Mul R} {inst✝² : One R} {inst✝³ : Neg R} [self : IsSemireal R] : ¬IsSumSq (-1)

Alias of IsSemireal.not_isSumSq_neg_one.

instance instIsSemireal (R : Type u_1) [LinearOrderedRing R] : IsSemireal R