Abstract
Rings in which the square of each unit is a sum of an idempotent and an element from the Jacobson radical are said to be 2-UJ. Properties of 2-UJ rings are discussed, and the 2-UJ property is applied to characterize some known notions of rings.
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Acknowledgments
After the proofs were returned, the authors were made aware that the result in Theorem 3.3 is similar to result in Theorem 2.8 of Danchev, P. (2019). On exchange π-JU unital rings. Rendiconti Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Torino 77(1):13–23, although both the results are independent.
The authors are highly grateful to the anonymous referee for his/her insights and many valuable comments.