Generalized weakly symmetric rings. (Q2443271)

An associative ring \(R\) with identity is called generalized weakly symmetric (GWS) if for any \(a,b,c\in R\), \(abc=0\) implies that the element \(bac\) is nilpotent. Commutative rings, reduced rings and symmetric rings are all GWS. The author establishes several interesting results on GWS rings, such as: (1) a ring \(R\) is GWS if and only if the \(n\times n\) upper triangular matrices ring is GWS for any positive integer \(n\); (2) GWS rings are directly finite and left min-Abel; (3) a GWS ring \(R\) is strongly regular if and only if \(R\) is von Neumann regular; (4) a GWS ring \(R\) is an exchange ring if and only if \(R\) is a clean ring; (5) GWS exchange rings have stable range \(1\).