Rings with Clean-Like Properties: Endomorphism, Matrix and Structural Theorems

Abstract

We investigate three clean-like properties for arbitrary rings, for endomorphism rings of abelian groups and for matrix rings over finite fields. Specifically, we study and establish when a ring is weakly strongly $k$-nil-clean for some fixed natural number $k\ge 2$, when the matrix ring is either quasi $2$-nil-clean or quasi $3$-nil-clean, and when the endomorphism ring is weakly clean. Our theorems improve substantially on some results due to Goldsmith-Vámos in Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova (2007), Breaz {\it et al}. in Linear Algebra \& Appl. (2013), Koşan-Zhou in Front. Math. China (2016), Su {\it et al}. in J. Algebra \& Appl. (2027), and some other existing results in this current topic.

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