On a theorem of Anderson and Chun (Q6158183)

All rings are commutative unital ring. A ring \(R\) is called strongly associate if for each \(a,b\in R\) whenever \(Ra=Rb\) implies that \(a=ub\) for some unit \(u\) of \(R\). \(R\) is called strongly regular associate if whenever \(Ra=Rb\), for \(a,b\in R\), then there exist regular (non-zerodivisor) elements \(r,s\in R\) such that \(a=rb\) and \(b=ra\) (and therefore \(a\) and \(b\) are (strongly) associate in classical quotient of \(R\)). A ring \(R\) has stable range \(1\) if whenever \(a, b\in R\) and \(Ra+Rb=R\), then there exists \(x\in R\), such that \(a+bx\) is a unit in \(R\). Finally a ring \(R\) has regular range \(1\), if whenever \(a, b\in R\) and \(Ra+Rb=R\), then there exists \(x\in R\) such that \(a+bx\) is regular in \(R\) (and there for is a unit in classical quotient ring of \(R\)). The authors proved that the polynomial ring always has regular range \(1\) and each regular range \(1\) ring is a strongly regular associate. Finally the characterized when the ring \(C(X)\) is strongly regular associate or has stable range \(1\).