Exchange rings, units and idempotents

摘要

An associative ring R with identity is semiperfect if and only if every element of R is a sum of a unit and an idempotent, and R contains no infinite set of orthogonal idempotents. A ring which contains no infinite set of orthogonal idempotents is an exchange ring if and only if every element is a sum of a unit and an idempo-tent