Armendariz ring property via idempotent elements

Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of e-Armendariz rings, a generalization of Armendariz rings via idempotent element $e$. A ring $R$ is called right e-Armendariz if for any polynomials $f(x),g(x)\in R[x]$, the condition $f(x)g(x)=0$ implies $a_i{b}_{j}e=0$ for all coefficients $a_i$ of $f(x)$ and $b_j$ of $g(x)$. We establish that this new class of rings is not left-right symmetric and provide several illustrative examples. The main result of this paper provides a characterization that a ring $R$ is right e-Armendariz if and only if the idempotent $e$ is left semicentral and the corner ring $eRe$ is an Armendariz ring.