A new characteristic property of von Neumann regular rings is proposed in terms of annihilators of elements. An ELT fully idempotent ring is a regular ring whose simple left (or right) modules are either injective or projective. Artinian rings are characterized in terms of Noetherian rings. Strongly regular rings and rings whose two-sided ideals are generated by central idempotents are characte...

Group automata occur in the Krohn-Rhodes Decomposition Theorem and have been extensively investigated in the literature. The incidence rings of group automata were introduced by the first author in analogy with group rings and incidence rings of graphs. The main theorem of the present paper gives a complete description of the structure of incidence rings of group automata in terms of matrix rin...

the aim of this paper is to study orders over a valuation ring v with arbitrary rank in acentral simple f-algebra q. the relation between all of the orders is explained with a diagram. it is thenshown that inside bezout order, extremal v-orders are precisely semi-hereditary. in the last section, theeffect of henselization on maximal and semi-hereditary orders is examined.