Ordering Orders and Quotient Rings

Abstract

In the present paper, we introduce a general notion of quotient ring which is based on inverses along an element. We show that, on the one hand, this notion encompasses quotient rings constructed using various generalized inverses. On the other hand, such quotient rings can be viewed as Fountain-Gould quotient rings with respect to appropriate subsets. We also investigate the connection between partial order relations on a ring and on its ring of quotients.