A fundamental object of study in group theory is the lower central series of groups. Understanding its relationship with the dimension series is a challenging task. This monograph presents an exposition of different methods for investigating this relationship.

Generally, in any human field, a Smarandache Structure on a set A means a weak structure W on A such that there exists a proper subset B in A which is embedded with a stronger structure S. These types of structures occur in our everyday life, that's why we study them in this book. Thus, as a particular case: A Near-Ring is a non-empty set N together with two binary operations '+' and '.' such that (N, +) is a group (not necessarily abelian), (N, .) is a semigroup. For all a, b, c in N we have (a + b) . c = a . c + b . c. A Near-Field is a non-empty set P together with two binary operations '+' and '.' such that (P, +) is a group (not necessarily abelian), (P \ {0}, .) is a group. For all a, b, c I P we have (a + b) . c = a . c + b . c. A Smarandache Near-ring is a near-ring N which has a proper subset P in N, where P is a near-field (with respect to the same binary operations on N).

Research on algebraic structure of group rings is one of the leading, most sought-after topics in ring theory. The new class of neutrosophic rings defined in this book form a generalization of group rings and semigroup rings.The study of the classes of neutrosophic group neutrosophic rings and S-neutrosophic semigroup neutrosophic rings which form a type of generalization of group rings will throw light on group rings and semigroup rings which are essential substructures of them. A salient feature of this group is the many suggested problems on the new classes of neutrosophic rings, solutions of which will certainly develop some of the still open problems in group rings.Further, neutrosophic matrix rings find applications in neutrosophic models like Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCM), Neutrosophic Relational Maps (NRM), Neutrosophic Bidirectional Memories (NBM) and so on.

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Generally, in any human field, a Smarandache Structure on a set A means a weak structure W on A such that there exists a proper subset B which is embedded with a stronger structure S.By proper subset one understands a set included in A, different from the empty set, from the unit element if any, and from A.These types of structures occur in our every day?s life, that?s why we study them in this book.Thus, as two particular cases:A Smarandache ring of level I (S-ring I) is a ring R that contains a proper subset that is a field with respect to the operations induced. A Smarandache ring of level II (S-ring II) is a ring R that contains a proper subset A that verifies: ?A is an additive abelian group; ?A is a semigroup under multiplication;?For a, b I A, a?b = 0 if and only if a = 0 or b = 0.