Commuting probability for subrings and quotient rings
Keywords:
Commuting probability, Subring, Quotient ringAbstract
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.
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