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TWO QUESTIONS OF L. VAŠ ON $\ast $-CLEAN RINGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2013

JIANLONG CHEN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China email jlchen@seu.edu.cn
JIAN CUI*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, PR China email jcui1635@gmail.com
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Abstract

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A $\ast $-ring $R$ is called (strongly) $\ast $-clean if every element of $R$ is the sum of a unit and a projection (that commute). Vaš [‘$\ast $-Clean rings; some clean and almost clean Baer $\ast $-rings and von Neumann algebras’, J. Algebra 324(12) (2010), 3388–3400] asked whether there exists a $\ast $-ring that is clean but not $\ast $-clean and whether a unit regular and $\ast $-regular ring is strongly $\ast $-clean. In this paper, we answer these two questions. We also give some characterisations related to $\ast $-regular rings.

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Research Article
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Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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