It is well known that a commutative ring R is complemented (that is, given a ∈ R there exists b ∈ R such that ab = 0 and a + b is a regular element) if an only if the total ring of quotients of R is von Neumann regular. We consider generalizations of the notion of a complemented ring and their implications for the total ring of quotients. We then look at the specific case when the ring is a rin...

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...

One of the many equivalent formulation Köthe's conjecture is assertion that there exists no unital ring which contains two nil right ideals whose sum not nil. We discuss several consequences an observation if Koethe fails then a counterexample in form countable local subring suitable self-injective prime von Neumann regular ring.

The assignment (nonstable K0-theory), that to a ring R associates the monoid V(R) of Murray-von Neumann equivalence classes of idempotent infinite matrices with only finitely nonzero entries over R, extends naturally to a functor. We prove the following lifting properties of that functor: (i) There is no functor Γ, from simplicial monoids with order-unit with normalized positive homomorphisms t...

It is shown that a ring R is (von Neumann) regular if and only if every cyclic left R-module is GP -injective if and only if R is left PP and left GP -injective. In addition, two examples are given to answer two open questions in the negative. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 16E50, 16D60

In this paper, the explicit form of maximal elements, known as shorted operators, in a subring of a von Neumann regular ring has been obtained. As an application of the main theorem, the unique shorted operator (of electrical circuits) which was introduced by Anderson-Trapp has been derived.

In this note we first show that for a right (resp. left) Ore ring R and an automorphism σ of R, if R is σ-skew McCoy then the classical right (resp. left) quotient ring Q(R) of R is σ̄-skew McCoy. This gives a positive answer to the question posed in Başer et al. [1]. We also characterize semiprime right Goldie (von Neumann regular) McCoy (σ-skew McCoy) rings.

For any group G and any set A, a cellular automaton (CA) is a transformation of the configuration space A G defined via a finite memory set and a local function. Let CA(G; A) be the monoid of all CA over A G. In this paper, we investigate a generalisation of the inverse of a CA from the semigroup-theoretic perspective. An element τ ∈ CA(G; A) is von Neumann regular (or simply regular) if there ...