Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 553-558, 2018
Rings consisting entirely of certain elements
Huanyin Chen, Marjan Sheibani, Nahid Ashrafi
Received October 20, 2016. First published March 22, 2018.
Abstract: We completely determine when a ring consists entirely of weak idempotents, units and nilpotents. We prove that such ring is exactly isomorphic to one of the following: a Boolean ring; $\Bbb Z_3\oplus{\Bbb Z}_3$; $\Bbb Z_3\oplus B$ where $B$ is a Boolean ring; local ring with nil Jacobson radical; $M_2(\Bbb Z_2)$ or $M_2(\Bbb Z_3)$; or the ring of a Morita context with zero pairings where the underlying rings are $\Bbb Z_2$ or $\Bbb Z_3$.
Keywords: idempotent; nilpotent; Boolean ring; local ring; Morita context