A ring R is called strongly clean if every element of R is the sum of a unit and an idempotent that commute. By SRC factorization, Borooah, Diesl, and Dorsey [3] completely determined when Mn(R) over a commutative local ring R is strongly clean. We generalize the notion of SRC factorization to commutative rings, prove that commutative n-SRC rings (n ≥ 2) are precisely the commutative local ring...

In [5] and [6], a nil clean ring was defined as a ring for which every element is the sum of a nilpotent and an idempotent. In this short article we characterize nil clean commutative group rings.