On Quasipolar Rings

Abstract

The notion of quasipolar elements of rings was introduced by Koliha and Patricio in 2002. In this paper, we introduce the notion of quasipolar rings and relate it to other familiar notions in ring theory. It is proved that both strongly π-regular rings and uniquely clean rings are quasipolar, and quasipolar rings are strongly clean, but no two of these classes of rings are equivalent. For commutative rings, quasipolar rings coincide with semiregular rings. It is also proved that every n × n upper triangular matrix ring over any commutative uniquely clean ring or commutative local ring is quasipolar.