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A multiplicative dual of nil-clean rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2021

Yiqiang Zhou*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NLA1C 5S7, Canada

Abstract

The goal of this note is to completely determine the rings for which every nonunit is a product of a nilpotent and an idempotent (in either order).

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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2021

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