Feckly Adequate Conditions and Elementary Matrix Reduction

Abstract

We present some new conditions for a B$\acute{e}$zout ring to be an elementary divisor ring. We prove, in this note, that a B$\acute{e}$zout ring $R$ is feckly zero-adequate if and only if $R/J(R)$ is regular if and only if $R/J(R)$ is $π$-regular, and that every feckly zero-adequate ring is an elementary divisor ring. If $R$ has feckly adequate range 1, we prove that $R$ is an elementary divisor ring if and only if $R$ is a B$\acute{e}$zout ring. Many known results are thereby generalized to much wider class of rings, e.g. [4, Theorem 14], [5, Theorem 4], [8, Theorem 1.2.14], [10, Theorem 4] and [11, Theorem 7]. \vskip3mm {\bf Keywords:} Elementary divisor ring, B$\acute{e}$zout ring, Feckly zero-adequate ring, Feckly adequate range 1.