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ON CLEAN LAURENT SERIES RINGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2013

YIQIANG ZHOU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John’s, Canada Nfld A1C 5S7 email zhou@mun.ca
MICHAŁ ZIEMBOWSKI*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland
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Abstract

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Here we prove that, for a $2$-primal ring $R$, the Laurent series ring $R((x))$ is a clean ring if and only if $R$ is a semiregular ring with $J(R)$ nil. This disproves the claim in K. I. Sonin [‘Semiprime and semiperfect rings of Laurent series’, Math. Notes 60 (1996), 222–226] that the Laurent series ring over a clean ring is again clean. As an application of the result, it is shown that, for a $2$-primal ring $R$, $R((x))$ is semiperfect if and only if $R((x))$ is semiregular if and only if $R$ is semiperfect with $J(R)$ nil.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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