• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.25-40
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• 2018

We focus on the structure of the set of noncentral idempotents whose role is similar to one of central idempotents. We introduce the concept of quasi-Abelian rings which unit-regular rings satisfy. We first observe that the class of quasi-Abelian rings is seated between Abelian and direct finiteness. It is proved that a regular ring is directly finite if and only if it is quasi-Abelian. It is also shown that quasi-Abelian property is not left-right symmetric, but left-right symmetric when a given ring has an involution. Quasi-Abelian property is shown to do not pass to polynomial rings, comparing with Abelian property passing to polynomial rings.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.405-417
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• 2023

The RIP of rings was introduced by Kwak and Lee as a generalization of the one-sided idempotent-reflexivity property. In this study, we focus on rings in which all one-sided semicentral idempotents are central, and we refer to them as quasi-Abelian rings, extending the concept introduced by RIP. We establish that quasi-Abelianity extends to various types of rings, including polynomial rings, power series rings, Laurent series rings, matrices, and certain subrings of triangular matrix rings. Furthermore, we provide comprehensive proofs for several results that hold for RIP and are also satisfied by the quasi-Abelian property. Additionally, we investigate the structural properties of minimal non-Abelian quasi-Abelian rings.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.6
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• pp.1233-1254
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• 2023

We introduce two subclasses of abelian McCoy rings, so-called π-CN-rings and π-duo rings, and systematically study their fundamental characteristic properties accomplished with relationships among certain classical sorts of rings such as 2-primal rings, bounded rings etc. It is shown that a ring R is π-CN whenever every nilpotent element of index 2 in R is central. These rings naturally generalize the long-known class of CN-rings, introduced by Drazin [9]. It is proved that π-CN-rings are abelian, McCoy and 2-primal. We also show that, π-duo rings are strongly McCoy and abelian and also they are strongly right AB. If R is π-duo, then R[x] has property (A). If R is π-duo and it is either right weakly continuous or every prime ideal of R is maximal, then R has property (A). A π-duo ring R is left perfect if and only if R contains no infinite set of orthogonal idempotents and every left R-module has a maximal submodule. Our achieved results substantially improve many existing results.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.751-771
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• 2014

We study the structure of idempotents in polynomial rings, power series rings, concentrating in the case of rings without identity. In the procedure we introduce right Insertion-of-Idempotents-Property (simply, right IIP) and right Idempotent-Reversible (simply, right IR) as generalizations of Abelian rings. It is proved that these two ring properties pass to power series rings and polynomial rings. It is also shown that ${\pi}$-regular rings are strongly ${\pi}$-regular when they are right IIP or right IR. Next the noncommutative right IR rings, right IIP rings, and Abelian rings of minimal order are completely determined up to isomorphism. These results lead to methods to construct such kinds of noncommutative rings appropriate for the situations occurred naturally in studying standard ring theoretic properties.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.951-973
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• 1997

We classify up to conjugation all finite abelian subgroups of $GL(2,C)$ of order $\leq 18$ and compute the generators and relations of their rings of invariants. In other words, we classify all 2-dimensional quotient singularities by an abelian group of order $\leq 18$ and compute the generators and relations of their affine coordinate rings.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 2020

A ring R is called generalized regular if for every nonzero x in R there exists y in R such that xy is a nonzero idempotent. In this paper, we observe some equivalent conditions for the generalized regular rings that are abelian in terms of idempotents, and we also investigate the primitivity of an idempotent for such a ring. By using the investigation, we characterize such a kind of rings that are noetherian by showing that an abelian generalized regular ring R is noetherian if and only if R is isomorphic to a direct product of finitely many division rings. We also observe some interesting consequences of our results.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.925-942
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• 2016

We study the structure of rings whose principal right ideals contain a sort of two-sided ideals, introducing right ${\pi}$-duo as a generalization of (weakly) right duo rings. Abelian ${\pi}$-regular rings are ${\pi}$-duo, which is compared with the fact that Abelian regular rings are duo. For a right ${\pi}$-duo ring R, it is shown that every prime ideal of R is maximal if and only if R is a (strongly) ${\pi}$-regular ring with $J(R)=N_*(R)$. This result may be helpful to develop several well-known results related to pm rings (i.e., rings whose prime ideals are maximal). We also extend the right ${\pi}$-duo property to several kinds of ring which have roles in ring theory.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2020

This article concerns a property of local rings and domains. A ring R is called weakly local if for every a ∈ R, a is regular or 1-a is regular, where a regular element means a non-zero-divisor. We study the structure of weakly local rings in relation to several kinds of factor rings and ring extensions that play roles in ring theory. We prove that the characteristic of a weakly local ring is either zero or a power of a prime number. It is also shown that the weakly local property can go up to polynomial (power series) rings and a kind of Abelian matrix rings.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.1689-1696
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• 2014

Recently, it was proved that every p-Schur ring over an abelian group of order $p^3$ is Schurian. In this paper, we prove that every commutative p-Schur ring over a non-abelian group of order $p^3$ is Schurian.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.267-278
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• 2024

In this paper, we continue to explore an idea presented in [3] and introduce a new class of matrix rings called staircase matrix rings which has applications in noncommutative ring theory. We show that these rings preserve the notions of reduced, symmetric, reversible, IFP, reflexive, abelian rings, etc.