On prime ideals and radicals of polynomial rings and graded rings

We extend some known results on radicals and prime ideals from polynomial rings and Laurent polynomial rings to Z-graded rings, i.e, rings graded by the additive group of integers. The main of them concerns the Brown–McCoy radical G and the radical S, which for a given ring A is defined as the intersection of prime ideals I of A such that A/I is a ring with a large center. The studies are related to some open problems on the radicals G and S of polynomial rings and situated in the context of Koethe’s problem.