Non-unital Ore extensions

Abstract

In this article, we study Ore extensions of non-unital associative rings. We provide a characterization of simple non-unital differential polynomial rings $R[x;\delta]$, under the hypothesis that $R$ is $s$-unital and $\ker(\delta)$ contains a nonzero idempotent. This result generalizes a result by \"Oinert, Richter and Silvestrov from the unital setting. We also present a family of examples of simple non-unital differential polynomial rings.