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Nil Clean Involutions

Rings and Algebras 2017-10-03 v2

Abstract

We prove that if an involution in a ring is the sum of an idempotent and a nilpotent then the idempotent in this decomposition must be 1. As a consequence, we completely characterize weakly nil-clean rings introduced recently in [Breaz, Danchev and Zhou, Rings in which every element is either a sum or a difference of a nilpotent and an idempotent, J. Algebra Appl., DOI: 10.1142/S0219498816501486].

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@article{arxiv.1512.02277,
  title  = {Nil Clean Involutions},
  author = {Janez Šter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02277},
  year   = {2017}
}
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