• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.1193-1205
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• 2018

We focus our attention on a ring property that nilpotents are contained in the Jacobson radical. This property is satisfied by NI and left (right) quasi-duo rings. A ring is said to be NJ if it satisfies such property. We prove the following: (i) $K{\ddot{o}}the^{\prime}s$ conjecture holds if and only if the polynomial ring over an NI ring is NJ; (ii) If R is an NJ ring, then R is exchange if and only if it is clean; and (iii) A ring R is NJ if and only if so is every (one-sided) corner ring of R.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2018

In this article we consider rings whose Jacobson radical contains all the nilpotent elements, and call such a ring an NJ-ring. The class of NJ-rings contains NI-rings and one-sided quasi-duo rings. We also prove that the Koethe conjecture holds if and only if the polynomial ring R[x] is NJ for every NI-ring R.