Stable range conditions for abelian and duo rings (Q2133661)

This paper focuses on the condition under which the classical ring of quotients of a duo ring exists and the idempotents in the classical ring of quotients \(Q_{Cl}(R)\) are there idempotents in \(R\). The new concepts of a ring of (von Neumann) regular range 1, a ring of semihereditary range 1 and a ring of regular range 1 are introduced. It is shown that a semihereditary local duo ring is a ring of semihereditary range 1, and a regular local Bezout duo ring is a ring of stable range 2. In particular, for an abelian ring \(R\), it is proved that \(R\) is a ring of stable range 1 if and only if \(R\) is a ring of von Neumann regular range 1. Moreover, the Gelfand elements and the Gelfand range 1 for the case of a duo ring are studied. The authors show that a Hermite duo ring of the Gelfand range 1 is an elementary divisor ring.