Statement For General Rings
The general form of the Chinese remainder theorem, which implies all the statements given above, can be formulated for commutative rings and ideals. If R is a commutative ring and I1, …, Ik are ideals of R which are pairwise coprime (meaning that for all ), then the product I of these ideals is equal to their intersection, and the quotient ring R/I is isomorphic to the product ring R/I1 × R/I2 × … × R/Ik via the isomorphism
such that
Here is a version of the theorem where R is not required to be commutative:
Let R be any ring with 1 (not necessarily commutative) and be pairwise coprime 2-sided ideals. Then the canonical R-module homomorphism is onto, with kernel . Hence, (as R-modules).
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