Certain Properties of Square Matrices over Fields with Applications to Rings

Abstract

We prove that any square nilpotent matrix over a field is a difference of two idempotent matrices as well as that any square matrix over an algebraically closed field is a sum of a nilpotent square-zero matrix and a diagonalizable matrix. We further apply these two assertions to a variation of π-regular rings. These results somewhat improve on establishments due to Breaz from Linear Algebra & amp; Appl. (2018) and Abyzov from Siberian Math. J. (2019) as well as they also refine two recent achievements due to the present author, published in Vest. St. Petersburg Univ. - Ser. Math., Mech. & amp; Astr. (2019) and Chebyshevskii Sb. (2019), respectively.

On Some Decompositions of Matrices over Algebraically Closed and Finite Fields

“…The results can be viewed and treated as the development of method and ideas presented in [8] and [6], respectively. Some closely related studies can also be found in [5].…”