ON STRONGLY CLEAN MATRIX RINGS

Abstract: A ring

R

is called strongly clean if every element of

R

is the sum of a unit and an idempotent that commute. By { m SRC} factorization, Borooah, Diesl, and Dorsey cite{BDD051} completely determined when

{m a t h b b M}_{n} (R)

over a commutative local ring

R

is strongly clean. We generalize the notion of { m SRC} factorization to commutative rings, prove that commutative

n

-{ m SRC} rings

(n g e 2)

are precisely the commutative local rings over which

{m a t h b b M}_{n} (R)

is strongly clean, and characterize strong cleanness of matrices over commutative projective-free rings having { m ULP}. The strongly

p i

-regular property (hence, strongly clean property) of

{m a t h b b M}_{n} (C (X, m a t h b b C))

with

X

a { m P}-space relative to

m a t h b b C

is also obtained where

C (X, m a t h b b C)

is the ring of complex valued continuous functions.

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