A Note on Potent Elements

  • Chen, Huanyin (Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University)
  • Received : 2003.10.13
  • Published : 2005.12.23

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that every exchange ring can be characterized by potent elements. Also we extend [10, Theorem 3.1 and Theorem 4.1] to quasi-clean rings in which every element is a sum of a potent element and a unit.

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