A NOTE ON STRONGLY CLEAN MATRICES

Year 2011, Volume: 10 Issue: 10, 192 - 204, 01.12.2011

Huanyin Chen

Abstract

A ring R is strongly clean provided that for any a ∈ R, there exist
an idempotent e ∈ R and a unit u ∈ R such that a = e + u and eu = ue.
Let T3(R) be a special subring of 3 by 3 matrix ring over R. We prove, in
this article, that T3(R) is strongly clean if and only if for any a ∈ J(R), b ∈
R, c ∈ 1 + J(R), either lb − ra or lb − rc is surjective. Similar characterization
is obtained for T3(R) over a weak h-ring R.

Keywords

strongly clean ring, matrix ring, local ring

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