Uniformly \(\pi\)-regular rings and semigroups: a survey. (Q2853158)

From the introduction: We give a survey of the most important structural properties of uniformly \(\pi\)-regular rings and semigroups.NEWLINENEWLINE The paper is divided into six sections. In the first section we introduce the necessary notions and notations and we present the main results concerning ideal extensions of rings and their representation by the known Everett's sums of rings. In Sections 2 and 3 we introduce the notions of a regular, \(\pi\)-regular, completely \(\pi\)-regular and periodic ring and semigroup, and of a completely Archimedean semigroup and we describe their basic properties. Structural characterizations of completely regular semigroups and rings are given in Section 4. The main tools that we use there, are certain decomposition methods: semilattice decompositions, in the case of semigroups, and subdirect sum decompositions, in the case of rings.NEWLINENEWLINE The main part of the whole paper is Section 5. In this section we first give structural descriptions of uniformly \(\pi\)-regular semigroups and rings. After that we present various characterizations of semigroups decomposable into a nil-extension of a union of groups, and using these results we characterize the rings decomposable into the direct sum of a nil-ring and Clifford ring.NEWLINENEWLINE Finally, in Section 6 we present certain applications of the results given in the previous section. Here we study various types of semigroup identities satisfied on the various classes of semigroups and rings. The classes of all identities satisfied on the classes of the semilattices of Archimedean semigroups, the nil-extensions of unions of groups, the bands of \(\pi\)-regular semigroups are described.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00006].