Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2013
A $\ast $-ring
$R$ is called (strongly)
$\ast $-clean if every element of
$R$ is the sum of a unit and a projection (that commute). Vaš [‘
$\ast $-Clean rings; some clean and almost clean Baer
$\ast $-rings and von Neumann algebras’, J. Algebra 324(12) (2010), 3388–3400] asked whether there exists a
$\ast $-ring that is clean but not
$\ast $-clean and whether a unit regular and
$\ast $-regular ring is strongly
$\ast $-clean. In this paper, we answer these two questions. We also give some characterisations related to
$\ast $-regular rings.