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# Endomorphisms That Are the Sum of a Unit and a Root of a Fixed Polynomial

Published:2006-06-01
Printed: Jun 2006
• W. K. Nicholson
• Y. Zhou
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## Abstract

If $C=C(R)$ denotes the center of a ring $R$ and $g(x)$ is a polynomial in C[x]$, Camillo and Sim\'{o}n called a ring$g(x)$-clean if every element is the sum of a unit and a root of$g(x)$. If$V$is a vector space of countable dimension over a division ring$D,$they showed that$\end {}_{D}V$is$g(x)$-clean provided that$g(x)$has two roots in$C(D)$. If$g(x)=x-x^{2}$this shows that$\end {}_{D}V$is clean, a result of Nicholson and Varadarajan. In this paper we remove the countable condition, and in fact prove that$\Mend {}_{R}M$is$g(x)$-clean for any semisimple module$M$over an arbitrary ring$R$provided that$g(x)\in (x-a)(x-b)C[x]$where$a,b\in C$and both$b$and$b-a$are units in$R\$.
 Keywords: Clean rings, linear transformations, endomorphism rings
 MSC Classifications: 16S50 - Endomorphism rings; matrix rings [See also 15-XX] 16E50 - von Neumann regular rings and generalizations