Strongly Nil--Clean Rings

A *-ring $R$ is called a strongly nil-*-clean ring if every element of $R$ is the sum of a projection and a nilpotent element that commute with each other. In this article, we show that $R$ is a strongly nil-*-clean ring if and only if every idempotent in $R$ is a projection, $R$ is periodic, and $R...

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Main Authors Chen, Huanyin, Harmanci, Abdullah, Ozcan, A. Cigdem
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 22.11.2012
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Mathematics - Rings and Algebras
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Summary:A *-ring $R$ is called a strongly nil-*-clean ring if every element of $R$ is the sum of a projection and a nilpotent element that commute with each other. In this article, we show that $R$ is a strongly nil-*-clean ring if and only if every idempotent in $R$ is a projection, $R$ is periodic, and $R/J(R)$ is Boolean. For any commutative *-ring $R$, we prove that the algebraic extension $R[i]$ where $i^2=\mu i+\eta$ for some $\mu,\eta\in R$ is strongly nil-*-clean if and only if $R$ is strongly nil-*-clean and $\mu\eta$ is nilpotent. The relationships between Boolean *-rings and strongly nil-*-clean rings are also obtained.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1211.5286