Nil-quasipolar rings. (Q2254691)

Generalizing the notions of polar rings and quasipolar rings, the authors in this paper define nil-quasipolar rings and investigate their properties. They prove that nil-quasipolar rings are precisely strongly nil-clean rings and hence deduce that for a local ring \(R\), \(R\) is nil-quasipolar if and only if for any \(n\) in \(\mathbb N\), the upper triangular matrix ring \(T_n(R)\) nil-quasipolar. They also prove that every nil-quasipolar ring is polar and hence strongly \(\pi\)-regular and hence has stable range one. For an endomorphism \(\alpha\) on an \(R\)-module \(M\), they derive equivalent conditions for \(\alpha\) to be nil-quasipolar. In the next section 3, for a commutative local ring \(R\), the authors derive conditions under which a matrix \(A\) in \(M_2(R)\) is nil-quasipolar. The authors conclude the paper with the following result. If \(R\) is a commutative local ring and \(n\) is a positive integer then \(A(X)M_2(R[[X]]/(X^n))\) is nil-quasipolar if and only if its evaluation \(A(0)\) at \(0\) is nil-quasipolar in \(M_2(R)\).