Clean-like properties in bi-amalgamation algebras (Q6188411)

Let \(f:A\rightarrow B\) and \(g:A\rightarrow C\) be two ring homomorphisms of commutative rings and \(J\) and \(J'\) be non-zero proper ideals of \(B\) and \(C\) respectively, such that \(I_{0}:=f^{-1}(J) = g^{-1}(J')\). The bi-amalgamation of \(A\) with \((B, C)\) along \((J, J')\) with respect to \((f, g)\) is the subring of \(B\times C\) given by \[ A\bowtie^{f, g} (J, J')=\{(f(a)+j, g(a)+j')| a\in A, (j, j')\in J\times J'\} \] This construction is a generalization of the amalgamated duplication of a ring along an ideal. Recall that a ring \(R\) is said to be (uniquely) clean if every element can be expressed (uniquely) as the sum of a unit and an idempotent. In this paper, the authors investigated the transfer of clean property to bi-amalgamation algebras. They proved that if \(A\bowtie^{f, g} (J, J')\) is a clean ring, then \(f(A) + J\) and \(g(A) + J'\) are clean rings, and the converse is true provided that \(A\) is clean and \(A/I_{0}\) is uniquely clean. Other results on Boolean, von Neumann and \(\pi\)-regular rings are given.