On clean, weakly clean, and feebly clean commutative group rings
Abstract
A ring is said to be clean if each element of can be written as the sum of a unit and an idempotent. is said to be weakly clean if each element of is either a sum or a difference of a unit and an idempotent, and is said to be feebly clean if every element can be written as , where is a unit and are orthogonal idempotents. Clearly clean rings are weakly clean rings and both of them are feebly clean. In a recent article (J. Algebra Appl. 17 (2018), 1850111(5 pages)), McGoven characterized when the group ring is weakly clean and feebly clean, where are distinct primes. In this paper, we consider a more general setting. Let be an algebraic number field, its ring of integers, a nonzero prime ideal, and the localization of at . We investigate when the group ring is weakly clean and feebly clean, where is a finite abelian group, and establish an explicit characterization for such a group ring to be weakly clean and feebly clean for the case when is a cyclotomic field or is a quadratic field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.15509,
title = {On clean, weakly clean, and feebly clean commutative group rings},
author = {Yuanlin Li and Qinghai Zhong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15509},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
To appear in Journal of algebra and its applications