• Title of article

    Group rings in which every element is uniquely the sum of a unit and an idempotent

  • Author/Authors

    J. Chen، نويسنده , , W.K. Nicholson، نويسنده , , Y. Zhou، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    453
  • To page
    460
  • Abstract
    A ring R is called clean if every element is the sum of an idempotent and a unit, and R is called uniquely clean if this representation is unique. These rings are related to the boolean rings: R is uniquely clean if and only if R/J(R) is boolean, idempotents lift modulo J(R), and idempotents in R are central. It is shown that if the group ring RG is uniquely clean then R is uniquely clean and G is a 2-group. The converse holds if G is locally finite (in particular if G is solvable).
  • Keywords
    Clean rings , Group rings , Boolean rings , Idempotents
  • Journal title
    Journal of Algebra
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Journal of Algebra
  • Record number

    697823