Generalized inverses and their relations with clean decompositions

An element a in a ring R is called clean if it is the sum of an idempotent e and a unit u. Such a clean decomposition a = e + u is said to be strongly clean if eu = ue and special clean if aR eR = (0). In this paper, we prove that a is Drazin invertible if and only if there exists an idempotent e an...

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Main Author: Huihui Zhu (author)
Other Authors: Honglin Zou (author), Patrício, Pedro (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1822/64193
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/64193
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Summary:An element a in a ring R is called clean if it is the sum of an idempotent e and a unit u. Such a clean decomposition a = e + u is said to be strongly clean if eu = ue and special clean if aR eR = (0). In this paper, we prove that a is Drazin invertible if and only if there exists an idempotent e and a unit u such that an = e + u is both a strongly clean decomposition and a special clean decomposition, for some positive integer n. Also, the existence of the Moore-Penrose and group inverses is related to the existence of certain - clean decompositions.