*-Rickart Property For Rings with Involution

Abstract

This paper introduces and examines the concept of a *-Rickart *-ring, and proves that every Rickart *-ring is also a *-Rickart *-ring. A necessary and sufficient condition for a *-Rickart *-ring to be a Rickart *-ring is also provided. The relationship between *-Rickart *-rings and *-Baer *-rings is investigated, and several properties of *-Rickart *-rings are presented. The paper demonstrates that the property of *-Rickart extends to both the center and *-corners of a *-ring, and investigates the extension of a *-Rickart *-ring to its polynomial *-ring. Additionally, *-Rickart *-rings with descending chain condition on *-biideals are studied, and all *-Rickart (*-Baer) *-rings with finitely many elements are classified.