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On the Representation of an Idempotent as a Sum of Nilpotent Elements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M. Ferrero
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do, Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
E. R. Puczyłowski
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
S. Sidki
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matematica, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
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Abstract

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In this paper we study in which rings a non-zero idempotent element can be presented as a sum of two nilpotent elements.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1996

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