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Publications and source records attributed to Cristian Rafiliu.
We establish a Kaplansky-Walker type lemma for idempotent complete additive categories with direct sums. It will be used in compactly generated triangulated categories to provide a version of Kaplansky's theorem on projective modules and an isomorphism-refinement result for direct sums of countable objects.
We present characterizations for the inclusions $\mathrm{Add}(M)\subseteq \mathrm{Prod}(M)$ and $\mathrm{Prod}(M)\subseteq \mathrm{Add}(M)$ in locally finitely presented categories and in compactly generated triangulated categories. As applications, we describe the situations when the classes of the form $\mathrm{Prod}(M)$ and $\mathrm{Add}(M)$ are (pre)covering, respectively (pre)enveloping.
We will use commutators to provide decompositions of $3\times 3$ matrices as sums whose terms satisfy some polynomial identities, and we apply them to bounded linear operators and endomorphisms of free modules of infinite rank. In particular it is proved that every bounded operator of an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space is a sum of four automorphisms of order $3$ and that every simple ring that is obtained as a quotient of the endomorphism ring of an infinitely dimensional vector space modulo its maximal ideal is a sum of three nilpotent subrings.