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ANNIHILATOR-STABILITY AND TWO QUESTIONS OF NICHOLSON

Part of: Conditions on elements Grothendieck groups and $K_0$ Homological methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2020

GUOLI XIA  and
YIQIANG ZHOU
GUOLI XIA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John’s, NLA1C 5S7, Canada e-mails: xglxia@mun.ca; zhou@mun.ca
YIQIANG ZHOU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John’s, NLA1C 5S7, Canada e-mails: xglxia@mun.ca; zhou@mun.ca
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Abstract

An element a in a ring R is left annihilator-stable (or left AS) if, whenever $Ra+{\rm l}(b)=R$ with $b\in R$ , $a-u\in {\rm l}(b)$ for a unit u in R, and the ring R is a left AS ring if each of its elements is left AS. In this paper, we show that the left AS elements in a ring form a multiplicatively closed set, giving an affirmative answer to a question of Nicholson [J. Pure Appl. Alg.221 (2017), 2557–2572.]. This result is used to obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a formal triangular matrix ring to be left AS. As an application, we provide examples of left AS rings R over which the triangular matrix rings ${\mathbb T}_n(R)$ are not left AS for all $n\ge 2$ . These examples give a negative answer to another question of Nicholson [J. Pure Appl. Alg.221 (2017), 2557–2572.] whether R/J(R) being left AS implies that R is left AS.

MSC classification

Primary: 16U60: Units, groups of units 16E50: von Neumann regular rings and generalizations 19A13: Stability for projective modules
Type
Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , May 2021 , pp. 258 - 265
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust

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