Let R be a nil ring. We prove that primitive ideals in the polynomial ring R[x] in one indeterminate over R are of the form I [x] for some ideals I of R. All considered rings are associative but not necessarily have identities. Köthe’s conjecture states that a ring without nil ideals has no one-sided nil ideals. It is equivalent [4] to the assertion that polynomial rings over nil rings are Jaco...

It is well known that every uniquely clean ring is strongly clean. In this paper, we investigate the question of when this result holds element-wise. We first construct an example showing that uniquely clean elements need not be strongly clean. However, in case every corner ring is clean the uniquely clean elements are strongly clean. Further, we classify the set of uniquely clean elements for ...

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...

We prove that all trace $1$, $2\times 2$ invertible matrices over $\mathbb{Z}$ are nil-clean and, up to similarity, there only two $\mathbb{Z}$.

It is shown that a commutative Bézout ring R with compact minimal prime spectrum is an elementary divisor ring if and only if so is R/L for each minimal prime ideal L. This result is obtained by using the quotient space pSpec R of the prime spectrum of the ring R modulo the equivalence generated by the inclusion. When every prime ideal contains only one minimal prime, for instance if R is arith...