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Stable range one for rings with central units

Rings and Algebras 2019-10-11 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to give a partial positive answer to a question raised by Khurana et al. as to whether a ring RR with stable range one and central units is commutative. We show that this is the case under any of the following additional conditions: RR is semiprime or RR is one-sided Noetherian or RR has unit-stable range 11 or RR has classical Krull dimension 00 or RR is an algebra over a field KK such that KK is uncountable and RR has only countably many primitive ideals or RR is affine and either KK has characteristic 00 or has infinite transcendental degree over its prime subfield or is algebraically closed. However, the general question remains open.

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@article{arxiv.1910.04410,
  title  = {Stable range one for rings with central units},
  author = {Paula A. A. B. Carvalho and Christian Lomp and Jerzy Matczuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04410},
  year   = {2019}
}
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