Shorted Operators Relative to a Partial Order in a Regular Ring
Brian Blackwood, S. K. Jain, K. Manjunatha Prasad, Ashish Kumar Srivastava · Communications in Algebra · 2009
In this article, the explicit form of maximal elements, known as shorted operators, in a subring of a von Neumann regular ring, has been obtained. As an application of the main theorem, the unique shorted operator (of electrical circuits), which was introduced by Anderson–Trapp, has been derived.