English

Rings in which every unit is a sum of a nilpotent and an idempotent

Rings and Algebras 2017-10-10 v1

Abstract

A ring RR is a UU ring if every unit is unipotent, or equivalently if every unit is a sum of a nilpotent and an idempotent that commute. These rings have been investigated in C\u{a}lug\u{a}reanu \cite{C} and in Danchev and Lam \cite{DL}. In this paper, two generalizations of UU rings are discussed. We study rings for which every unit is a sum of a nilpotent and an idempotent, and rings for which every unit is a sum of a nilpotent and two idempotents that commute with one another.

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@article{arxiv.1710.02557,
  title  = {Rings in which every unit is a sum of a nilpotent and an idempotent},
  author = {Arezou Karimi-Mansoub and Tamer Kosan and Yiqiang Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02557},
  year   = {2017}
}