International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 903063, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/903063
Research Article

On Regular Elements in an Incline

Department of Mathematics, Karpagam University, Coimbatore 641 021, India

Received 17 August 2009; Revised 31 December 2009; Accepted 28 January 2010

Academic Editor: Aloys Krieg

Copyright © 2010 A. R. Meenakshi and S. Anbalagan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Inclines are additively idempotent semirings in which products are less than (or) equal to either factor. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an element in an incline to be regular are obtained. It is proved that every regular incline is a distributive lattice. The existence of the Moore-Penrose inverse of an element in an incline with involution is discussed. Characterizations of the set of all generalized inverses are presented as a generalization and development of regular elements in a -regular ring.