Unit-regularity of regular nilpotent elements

DOI10.1007/S10468-015-9592-1MaRDI QIDQ295901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dinesh Khurana

Publication date 14 June 2016

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07944

zbMATH Keywords

nilpotent elementsregular elementsstable range onestrongly \(\pi\)-regular elementsunit-regular elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

von Neumann regular rings and generalizations (associative algebraic aspects) (16E50) Nil and nilpotent radicals, sets, ideals, associative rings (16N40) Conditions on elements (16U99) Stable range conditions (19B10)

Abstract: Let $a$ be a regular element of a ring $R$. If either $K:=m{r}_R(a)$ has the exchange property or every power of $a$ is regular, then we prove that for every positive integer $n$ there exist decompositions ${\displaystyle }$ R_R = K oplus X_n oplus Y_n = E_n oplus X_n oplus aY_n,${\displaystyle }$ where $Y_{n}subseteq{a}^{n}R$ and $E_{n}congR/aR$. As applications we get easier proofs of the results that a strongly $pi$-regular ring has stable range one and also that a strongly $pi$-regular element whose every power is regular is unit-regular.

Review text

Special right ideal decompositions are established for a ring \(R\) containing a (von Neumann) regular element \(a\) such that either the right annihilator \(\text{r.ann}_R(a)\) has the exchange property or all powers of \(a\) are regular. Namely, \(R_R = \text{r.ann}_R(a) \oplus X_n \oplus Y_n = E_n \oplus X_n \oplus aY_n\) for all \(n \in \mathbb N\), with \(Y_n \subseteq a^nR\) and \(E_n \cong R/aR\). It follows directly that if \(a\) is additionally nilpotent, then it is unit-regular. Applications give easier proofs of the following results: (1) Every strongly \(\pi\)-regular ring has stable range one [\textit{P. Ara}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 124, No. 11, 3293--3298 (1996; Zbl 0865.16007)]; (2) Any strongly \(\pi\)-regular element all of whose powers are regular is unit-regular [\textit{K. I. Beidar} et al., Commun. Algebra 32, No. 9, 3543--3562 (2004; Zbl 1074.16005)]. It has recently been shown that in general, regular nilpotent elements need not be unit regular [\textit{P. Ara} and \textit{K. C. O'meara}, Can. Math. Bull. 59, No. 3, 461--471 (2016; Zbl 1383.16007); \textit{P. P. Nielsen} and \textit{J. Šter}, ``Connections between unit-regularity, regularity, cleanness, and strong cleanness of elements and rings, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.].

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