Clean ring

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In mathematics, a clean ring is a ring in which every element can be written as the sum of a unit and an idempotent. A ring is a local ring if and only if it is clean and has no idempotents other than 0 and 1. The endomorphism ring of a continuous module is a clean ring.[1] Every clean ring is an exchange ring.[2] A matrix ring over a clean ring is itself clean.[3]

References

  1. Camillo, V.P.; Khurana, D.; Lam, T.Y.; Nicholson, W.K.; Zhou, Y. (October 2006). "Continuous modules are clean". Journal of Algebra 304 (1): 94–111. doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.06.032. 
  2. Nicholson, W. K. (1977). "Lifting idempotents and exchange rings". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 229: 269-278. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1977-0439876-2. https://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1977-229-00/S0002-9947-1977-0439876-2/S0002-9947-1977-0439876-2.pdf. Retrieved 9 June 2016. 
  3. Hana, Juncheol; Nicholson, W. K. (2001). "Extensions of Clean Rings". Communications in Algebra 29 (6): 2589–2595. doi:10.1081/AGB-100002409.