On semiabelian \(\pi\)-regular rings. (Q925395)

A ring \(R\) is defined to be Abelian if all its idempotents are central, and semiabelian if every idempotent \(e\in R\) is right or left semicentral, meaning that \(eR=eRe\) or \(Re=eRe\). The author first proves that semiabelianness is preserved in constructions such as formal power series rings, polynomial rings, certain formal triangular matrix rings, and trivial extension rings. Then he investigates how this property relates to other conditions such as the exchange property and \(\pi\)-regularity. His main theorem states that a semiabelian ring \(R\) is \(\pi\)-regular if and only if the set \(N(R)\) of nilpotent elements of \(R\) is an ideal and \(R/N(R)\) is regular. The Abelian case of this result had been proved by \textit{A. Badawi} [Commun. Algebra 25, No. 4, 1009-1021 (1997; Zbl 0881.16003)]. Reviewer's note: The author introduces a ring \(T_n(R,M)\) of formal upper triangular matrices with coinciding diagonal entries from \(R\) and off-diagonal entries from an \(R\)-\(R\)-bimodule \(M\), but does not describe the multiplication operation.