Ring of regular quotients of a reduced ring (Q1112926)

Let \({\mathcal R}\) be a subring of some ring \({\mathcal N}\). Then \({\mathcal N}\) is called a (right) ring of regular quotients of the ring \({\mathcal R}\) if the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) for any \(r\in {\mathcal R}\) there exists a regular converse \(r^*\in {\mathcal N}\), i.e. an element such that \(rr^*r=r\), \(r^*rr^*=r^*\), \(rr^*=r^*r\); (b) for any \(n\in {\mathcal N}\) there exist elements \(a,b\in {\mathcal R}\) with \(n=ab^*.\) Let \({\mathcal R}\) be a reduced ring, i.e. \({\mathcal R}\) is a subring of a subdirect product of rings without zero divisors, and \(a^{\perp}\) denotes the set of annihilators of the element a in \({\mathcal R}\). The author proves some analog of Ore's theorem: a reduced ring \({\mathcal R}\) has a ring of regular quotients if and only if for any \(a,b\in {\mathcal R}\) there exist \(c,d\in {\mathcal R}\) such that ac and bd are perspective and \(a^{\perp}=c^{\perp}\), \(b^{\perp}=d^{\perp}\). There are studied conditions when right and left regular rings of quotients exist. They coincide in that case. The author gives some description of regular orders in direct products of skew fields.