n-torsion clean and almost n-torsion clean matrix rings

Abstract

We completely determine those natural numbers $n$ for which the full matrix ring $M_n(F_2)$ and the triangular matrix ring $T_n(F_2)$ over the two elements field $F_2$ are either n-torsion clean or are almost n-torsion clean, respectively. These results somewhat address and settle a question, recently posed by Danchev-Matczuk in Contemp. Math. (2019) as well as they supply in a more precise aspect the nil-cleanness property of the full matrix $n\times n$ ring $M_n(F_2)$ for all naturals $n \geq 1$, established in Linear Algebra and Appl. (2013) by Breaz-Calugareanu-Danchev-Micu and again in Linear Algebra & Appl. (2018) by Ster as well as in Indag. Math. (2020) by Shitov.