Direct-sum decomposition of atomic and orthogonally complete rings

Abstract

In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for decomposition (as a direct sum of fields) of a ring R in which for every x ∈ R there exists a (and hence the smallest) natural number n(x) > 1 such that . We would like to emphasize that in what follows R stands for a ring every element x of which satisfies (1).