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On clean, weakly clean, and feebly clean commutative group rings

Rings and Algebras 2021-01-01 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

A ring RR is said to be clean if each element of RR can be written as the sum of a unit and an idempotent. RR is said to be weakly clean if each element of RR is either a sum or a difference of a unit and an idempotent, and RR is said to be feebly clean if every element rr can be written as r=u+e1e2r=u+e_1-e_2, where uu is a unit and e1,e2e_1,e_2 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 Z(p)[Cq]\mathbb Z_{(p)}[C_q] is weakly clean and feebly clean, where p,qp, q are distinct primes. In this paper, we consider a more general setting. Let KK be an algebraic number field, OK\mathcal O_K its ring of integers, pO\mathfrak p\subset \mathcal O a nonzero prime ideal, and Op\mathcal O_{\mathfrak p} the localization of O\mathcal O at p\mathfrak p. We investigate when the group ring Op[G]\mathcal O_{\mathfrak p}[G] is weakly clean and feebly clean, where GG 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 K=Q(ζn)K=\mathbb Q(\zeta_n) is a cyclotomic field or K=Q(d)K=\mathbb Q(\sqrt{d}) is a quadratic field.

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@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}
}

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To appear in Journal of algebra and its applications

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