On weakly nil-clean rings


Kosan M. T., Zhou Y.

FRONTIERS OF MATHEMATICS IN CHINA, vol.11, no.4, pp.949-955, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 11 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s11464-016-0555-6
  • Journal Name: FRONTIERS OF MATHEMATICS IN CHINA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.949-955
  • Gazi University Affiliated: No

Abstract

We obtain the structure of the rings in which every element is either a sum or a difference of a nilpotent and an idempotent that commute. This extends the structure theorems of a commutative weakly nil-clean ring, of an abelian weakly nil-clean ring, and of a strongly nil-clean ring. As applications, this result is used to determine the 2-primal rings R such that the matrix ring M-n(R) is weakly nil-clean, and to show that the endomorphism ring End(D)(V) over a vector space V-D is weakly nil-clean if and only if it is nil-clean or dim(V) = 1 with D congruent to Z(3).