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Decompositions of 2 × 2 matrices over local rings
An element a of a ring R is called perfectly clean if there exists an idempotent e ? comm2(a) such that a?e ? U(R). A ring R is perfectly clean in case every element in R is perfectly clean. In this paper, we completely determine when every 2 ? 2 …