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THE LINK BETWEEN REGULARITY AND STRONG-PI-REGULARITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2010

PEDRO PATRÍCIO*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática e Aplicações, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal (email: pedro@math.uminho.pt)
R. E. HARTWIG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, N.C.S.U., Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, USA (email: hartwig@unity.ncsu.edu)
*
For correspondence; e-mail: pedro@math.uminho.pt
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Abstract

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It is shown that if all powers of a ring element a are regular, then a is strongly pi-regular exactly when a suitable word in the powers of a and their inner inverses is a unit.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2010

Footnotes

This research received financial support from the Research Centre of Mathematics of the University of Minho (CMAT) through the FCT Pluriannual Funding Program.

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