All rings R considered are commutative and have an identity element. Contessa called R a VNL-ring if a or 1 a has a Von Neumann inverse whenever a 2 R. Sample results: Every prime ideal of a VNL-ring is contained in a unique maximal ideal. Local and Von Neumann regular rings are VNL and if the product of two rings is VNL, then both are Von Neumann regular, or one is Von Neumann regular and the ...

let $mathcal m$ be a factor von neumann algebra. it is shown that every nonlinear $*$-lie higher derivation$d={phi_{n}}_{ninmathbb{n}}$ on $mathcal m$ is additive. in particular, if $mathcal m$ is infinite type $i$factor, a concrete characterization of $d$ is given.

We prove that for every bounded linear operator T : X → X, where X is a non-reflexive quotient of a von Neumann algebra, the point spectrum of T ∗ is non-empty (i.e. for some λ ∈ C the operator λI − T fails to have dense range.) In particular, and as an application, we obtain that such a space cannot support a topologically transitive operator.

An element f of a commutative ring A with identity element is called a von Neumann regular element if there is a g in A such that fg = f . A point p of a (Tychonoff) space X is called a P -point if each f in the ring C(X) of continuous realvalued functions is constant on a neighborhood of p. It is well-known that the ring C(X) is von Neumann regular ring iff each of its elements is a von Neuman...