CLEAN, ALMOST CLEAN, POTENT COMMUTATIVE RINGS

Abstract

We give a complete characterization of the class of commutative rings R possessing the property that Spec(R) is weakly 0-dimensional. They turn out to be the same as strongly π-regular rings. We considerably strengthen the results of K. Samei [13] tying up cleanness of R with the zero dimensionality of Max(R) in the Zariski topology. In the class of rings C(X), W. Wm Mc Govern [6] has characterized potent rings as the ones with X admitting a clopen π-base. We prove the analogous result for any commutative ring in terms of the Zariski topology on Max(R). Mc Govern also introduced the concept of an almost clean ring and proved that C(X) is almost clean if and only if it is clean. We prove a similar result for all Gelfand rings R with J(R) = 0.