We prove that any noetherian quasi-excellent scheme of characteristic zero admits a strong desingularization which is functorial with respect to all regular morphisms. We show that as an easy formal consequence of this result one obtains strong functorial desingularization for many other spaces of characteristic zero including quasi-excellent stacks and formal schemes, and complex and non-archi...

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...

We investigate a generalization of Hopf algebra slq (2) by weakening the invertibility of the generator K, i.e. exchanging its invertibility KK = 1 to the regularity KKK = K. This leads to a weak Hopf algebra wslq (2) and a J-weak Hopf algebra vslq (2) which are studied in detail. It is shown that the monoids of group-like elements of wslq (2) and vslq (2) are regular monoids, which supports th...