Rings in which idempotents generate maximal or minimal ideals (Q2182570)

The authors characterize rings with identity in which every left ideal generated by an idempotent different from \(0\) and \(1\) is either a maximal left ideal or a minimal left ideal. These rings are called IMm-rings. Several special classes of IMm-rings are considered. In particular, if \(R\) is a semiprimitive commutative ring that has infinitely many maximal ideals, \(R\) being an IMm-ring is characterized by means of the Zariski topology of the maximal spectrum \(\text{Max}(R):=\{M\subseteq R: M \text{ is a maximal ideal of } R\}\). Finally the authors study rings with a weaker form of the ``IMm-property''.