Strong Reducedness and Strong Regularity for Near-rings

A near-ring N is called strongly reduced if, for $a{\in}N$, $a^2{\in}N_c$ implies $a{\in}N_c$, where $N_c$ denotes the constant part of N. We investigate some properties of strongly reduced near-rings and apply those to the study of left strongly regular near-rings. Finally we classify all reduced, and strongly reduced near-rings of order ${\leq}7$.