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Journal of Algebra

Volume 304, Issue 1, 1 October 2006, Pages 94-111
Journal of Algebra

Continuous modules are clean

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Abstract

A ring R is said to be clean if every element of R is a sum of an idempotent and a unit. The class of clean rings is quite large and includes, for instance, semiperfect rings (and thus finite rings), and rings of linear transformations of vector spaces. We prove that the endomorphism ring of every continuous (or discrete) module is clean.

Keywords

Clean endomorphism rings
Continuous and discrete modules

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