• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.71-78
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• 2009

An element of a ring R with identity is called strongly clean if it is the sum of an idempotent and a unit that commute, and R is called strongly clean if every element of R is strongly clean. Let R be a noncommutative local ring, a criterion in terms of solvability of a simple quadratic equation in R is obtained for $M_2$(R) to be strongly clean.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.63 no.4
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• pp.561-569
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• 2023

An element a ∈ R is strongly rad-clean provided that there exists an idempotent e ∈ R such that a - e ∈ U(R), ae = ea and eae ∈ J(eRe). In this article, we completely determine when a 2 × 2 matrix over a commutative local ring is strongly rad clean. An application to matrices over power-series is also given.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.387-396
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• 2016

An $n{\times}n$ matrix A over a commutative ring is strongly clean provided that it can be written as the sum of an idempotent matrix and an invertible matrix that commute. Let R be an arbitrary commutative ring, and let $A(x){\in}M_n(R[[x]])$. We prove, in this note, that $A(x){\in}M_n(R[[x]])$ is strongly clean if and only if $A(0){\in}M_n(R)$ is strongly clean. Strongly clean matrices over quotient rings of power series are also determined.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.759-767
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• 2011

An element of a ring is called strongly nil clean provided that it can be written as the sum of an idempotent and a nilpotent element that commute. A ring is strongly nil clean in case each of its elements is strongly nil clean. We investigate, in this article, the strongly nil cleanness of 2${\times}$2 matrices over local rings. For commutative local rings, we characterize strongly nil cleanness in terms of solvability of quadratic equations. The strongly nil cleanness of a single triangular matrix is studied as well.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.125-134
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• 2013

An element in a ring R is strongly clean provided that it is the sum of an idempotent and a unit that commutate. In this note, several necessary and sufficient conditions under which a $2{\times}2$ matrix over an integral domain is strongly clean are given. These show that strong cleanness over integral domains can be characterized by quadratic and Diophantine equations.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.589-599
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• 2012

An element of a ring is called strongly nil clean provided that it can be written as the sum of an idempotent and a nilpotent element that commute. We characterize, in this article, the strongly nil cleanness of $2{\times}2$ and $3{\times}3$ matrices over $R[x]/(x^2-1)$ where $R$ is a commutative local ring with characteristic 2. Matrix decompositions over fields are derived as special cases.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1069-1078
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• 2019

Let R be a ring with identity and P(R) denote the prime radical of R. An element r of a ring R is called strongly P-clean, if there exists an idempotent e such that $r-e=p{\in}P$(R) with ep = pe. In this paper, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions for an element of a trivial Morita context to be strongly P-clean.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.913-920
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• 2018

Let R be a 2-primal strongly 2-nil-clean ring. We prove that every square matrix over R is the sum of a tripotent and a nilpotent matrices. The similar result for rings of bounded index is proved. We thereby provide a large class of rings over which every matrix is the sum of a tripotent and a nilpotent matrices.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.813-822
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• 2014

A ring R is called quasipolar if for every a 2 R there exists $p^2=p{\in}R$ such that $p{\in}comm^2{_R}(a)$, $ a+p{\in}U(R)$ and $ap{\in}R^{qnil}$. The class of quasipolar rings lies properly between the class of strongly ${\pi}$-regular rings and the class of strongly clean rings. In this paper, we determine when a $2{\times}2$ matrix over a local ring is quasipolar. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a $2{\times}2$ matrix ring to be quasipolar are obtained.