A ring is called clean if every element is the sum of a unit and an idempotent. Throughout the last 30 years several characterizations of commutative clean rings have been given. We have compiled a thorough list, including some new equivalences, in hopes that in the future there will be a better understanding of this interesting class of rings. One of the fundamental properties of clean rings i...

‎a ring $r$ is strongly clean provided that every element‎ ‎in $r$ is the sum of an idempotent and a unit that commutate‎. ‎let‎ ‎$t_n(r,sigma)$ be the skew triangular matrix ring over a local‎ ‎ring $r$ where $sigma$ is an endomorphism of $r$‎. ‎we show that‎ ‎$t_2(r,sigma)$ is strongly clean if and only if for any $ain‎ ‎1+j(r)‎, ‎bin j(r)$‎, ‎$l_a-r_{sigma(b)}‎: ‎rto r$ is surjective‎. ‎furt...

In this paper we partially answer two open questions concerning clean rings. First, we demonstrate that if a quasi-continuous module is strongly clean then it is Dedekind-finite. Second, we prove a partial converse. We also prove that all clean decompositions on submodules of continuous modules extend to the entire module.

We investigate the structure of locally finite profinite rings. We classify (Jacobson-) semisimple locally finite profinite rings as products of complete matrix rings of bounded cardinality over finite fields, and we prove that the Jacobson radical of any locally finite profinite ring is nil of finite nilexponent. Our results apply to the context of small compact G-rings, where we also obtain a...