Rings with fine nilpotents (Q2243597)

A nonzero sum of a unit and a nilpotent element in a ring is called a fine element, which is also known as nil clean element. Rings in which every nonzero nilpotent is fine, is called \(NF\) rings. In this article \(NF\) rings are thoroughly discussed. The \(NF\) property of several standard constructions of rings such as ideal extensions, direct products and polynomial (and power series) rings is determined. The same is proven for the matrix rings as well and some interesting results are obtained. To name a few ``matrix rings over division rings are \(NF\)'', ``for \(n \geq 2\), if the matrix ring \(M_n(R)\) is \(NF\), then \(R\) is simple'', etc. Finally, the fine nilpotent elements in the \(2 \times 2\) matrix ring over a GCD domain(an integral domain in which every pair of nonzero elements has a greatest common divisor) are characterized.