Extensions and pullbacks in QB-rings.
exchange ringsmultiplier ringspurely infinite simple ringsQB-ringsquasi-invertible elementsring extensionsstable rank onesubdirect productsvon Neumann regular rings
Infinite-dimensional simple rings (except as in 16Kxx) (16D30) Structure and classification for modules, bimodules and ideals (except as in 16Gxx), direct sum decomposition and cancellation in associative algebras) (16D70) Grothendieck groups, (K)-theory, etc. (16E20) von Neumann regular rings and generalizations (associative algebraic aspects) (16E50) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Stable range conditions (19B10)
The authors introduced the concept of a QB-ring, generalizing the notion of a ring with K-theoretic stable rank 1 [in J. Algebra 230, No. 2, 608--655 (2000; Zbl 0963.16008)]. In particular, they established necessary and sufficient conditions for the middle ring of an extension \(0\to I\to R\to R/I\to 0\) to be a QB-ring. However, those conditions are difficult to verify, aside from the cases where \(I\) or \(R/I\) has stable rank 1. Here, they reformulate their extension theorem to make it more easily applicable in wider circumstances. For example, if \(I\) is a purely infinite, simple, essential ideal of \(R\), then \(R\) is QB if and only if \(R/I\) is QB and the quasi-invertible elements of \(R/I\) are right or left invertible. The authors also apply their extension results to pullbacks and multiplier rings. In particular, they prove that (a) Any finite subdirect product of QB-rings is QB; and (b) If \(R\) is a purely infinite, simple, (von Neumann) regular ring with a countable unit, then its multiplier ring is QB. They then study multiplier rings more closely, using the first and third authors' description of the monoid \(V({\mathcal M}(R))\) (consisting of equivalence classes of idempotent matrices over \({\mathcal M}(R)\)) for certain simple regular rings \(R\) [Commun. Algebra 28, No. 7, 3359--3385 (2000; Zbl 0963.16010)]. This approach yields conditions for \({\mathcal M}(R)\) or \({\mathcal M}(R)/R\) to be a QB-ring. Some results in the paper require certain purely infinite simple rings to be exchange rings. That hypothesis is now redundant, thanks to a recent result of the first author [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 132, No. 9, 2543--2547 (2004; Zbl 1055.16012)]. (Also submitted to MR.)
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