*-Clean Rings; Some Clean and Almost Clean Baer *-rings and von Neumann Algebras

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2011-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3865v1

Journal of Algebra, 324 (12) (2010) 3388 - 3400

Mathematics

Rings and Algebras

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A ring is clean (resp. almost clean) if each of its elements is the sum of a unit (resp. regular element) and an idempotent. In this paper we define the analogous notion for *-rings: a *-ring is *-clean (resp. almost *-clean) if its every element is the sum of a unit (resp. regular element) and a projection. Although *-clean is a stronger notion than clean, for some *-rings we demonstrate that it is more natural to use. The theorem on cleanness of unit-regular rings from [V. P. Camillo, D. Khurana, A Characterization of Unit Regular Rings, Communications in Algebra, 29 (5) (2001) 2293-2295] is modified for *-cleanness of *-regular rings that are abelian (or reduced or Armendariz). Using this result, it is shown that all finite, type I Baer *-rings that satisfy certain axioms (considered in [S. K. Berberian, Baer *-rings, Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 195, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1972] and [L. Vas, Dimension and Torsion Theories for a Class of Baer *-Rings, Journal of Algebra, 289 (2) (2005) 614-639]) are almost *-clean. In particular, we obtain that all finite type I AW*-algebras (thus all finite type I von Neumann algebras as well) are almost *-clean. We also prove that for a Baer *-ring satisfying the same axioms, the following properties are equivalent: regular, unit-regular, left (right) morphic and left (right) quasi-morphic. If such a ring is finite and type I, it is *-clean. Finally, we present some examples related to group von Neumann algebras and list some open problems.

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