Rings whose von Neumann regular elements are fine

Abstract

We study rings in which every von Neumann regular element is fine. This condition extends the notion of fine rings and identifies a distinguished subclass of idempotent-fine rings.

Keywords

• von Neumann regular
• fine
• RF ring
• RD ring
• regular simple
• matrix

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