Quasi-duo rings and stable range descent |
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Authors: | TY Lam Alex S Dugas |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA |
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Abstract: | In a recent paper, the first author introduced a general theory of corner rings in noncommutative rings that generalized the classical theory of Peirce decompositions. This theory is applied here to the study of the stable range of rings upon descent to corner rings. A ring is called quasi-duo if every maximal 1-sided ideal is 2-sided. Various new characterizations are obtained for such rings. Using some of these characterizations, we prove that, if a quasi-duo ring R has stable range ?n, the same is true for any semisplit corner ring of R. This contrasts with earlier results of Vaserstein and Warfield, which showed that the stable range can increase unboundedly upon descent to (even) Peirce corner rings. |
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Keywords: | 16A30 16A39 16A52 16A54 |
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