Cleanness of the group ring of an Abelian \(p\)-group over a commutative ring. (Q2909084)

An associative ring \(R\) is called clean if every of its elements is the sum of an idempotent and a unit, while \(R\) is uniquely clean if this representation is unique. The uniquely clean group rings are studied by \textit{J. Chen}, \textit{W. K. Nicholson} and \textit{Y. Zhou}, [J. Algebra 306, No. 2, 453-460 (2006; Zbl 1110.16025)].NEWLINENEWLINE Let \(R\) be a commutative ring with identity and assume that \(G\) is an Abelian \(p\)-group, where \(p\) is an element of the Jacobson radical \(J(R)\). Then the authors prove that the group ring \(RG\) is clean if and only if \(R\) is clean. Moreover, when \(G\) is a locally finite group, some conditions for \(RG\) to be uniquely clean are given. For example, \(RG\) is uniquely clean if and only if \(R\) is a uniquely clean ring and the radical \(J(RG)\) contains the augmentation ideal \(\Delta(G)\), or \(G\) is a 2-group.