• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.195-204
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• 2016

We prove, in this note, that a Zabavsky ring R is an elementary divisor ring if and only if R is a $B{\acute{e}}zout$ ring. Many known results are thereby generalized to much wider class of rings, e.g. [4, Theorem 14], [7, Theorem 4], [9, Theorem 1.2.14], [11, Theorem 4] and [12, Theorem 7].