On the Classification of Torsion-Free Nil Rings of Rank Two

Abstract

The paper contains the complete classification of nil rings with decomposable torsion-free additive group of rank two and description of nil rings with indecomposable torsion-free additive group of rank two. Moreover, it is shown that an indecomposable non-nil torsion-free abelian group $A$ of rank two supports only nilpotent rings exactly if $A$ is the additive group of a nil ring. Some decomposition criteria for torsion-free abelian groups of rank two are also included.