Equalities of ideals associated with two projections in rings with involution

In this article we study various right ideals associated with two projections (self-adjoint idempotents) in a ring with involution. Results of O.M. Baksalary, G. Trenkler, R. Piziak, P.L. Odell and R. Hahn about orthogonal projectors (complex matrices which are Hermitian and idempotent) are considered in the setting of rings with involution. New proofs based on algebraic arguments, rather than finite-dimensional and rank theory, are given.The authors thank the anonymous reviewer for his\her useful suggestions, which helped to improve the original version of this article. The second author is supported by Grant No. 174007 of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Development, Republic of Serbia.Benítez López, J.; Cvetkovic-Ilic, D. (2013). Equalities of ideals associated with two projections in rings with involution. Linear and Multilinear Algebra. 61(10):1419-1435. doi:10.1080/03081087.2012.743026S141914356110Baksalary, O. M., & Trenkler, G. (2009). Column space equalities for orthogonal projectors. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 212(2), 519-529. doi:10.1016/j.amc.2009.02.042Benítez, J. (2008). Moore–Penrose inverses and commuting elements of C∗-algebras. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 345(2), 766-770. doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.04.062Green, J. A. (1951). On the Structure of Semigroups. The Annals of Mathematics, 54(1), 163. doi:10.2307/1969317Harte, R. (1992). On generalized inverses in C*-algebras. Studia Mathematica, 103(1), 71-77. doi:10.4064/sm-103-1-71-77Harte, R. (1993). Generalized inverses in C*-algebras II. Studia Mathematica, 106(2), 129-138. doi:10.4064/sm-106-2-129-138Koliha, J. J. (2000). Elements of C*-algebras commuting with their Moore-Penrose inverse. Studia Mathematica, 139(1), 81-90. doi:10.4064/sm-139-1-81-90Koliha, J. J., Cvetković-Ilić, D., & Deng, C. (2012). Generalized Drazin invertibility of combinations of idempotents. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 437(9), 2317-2324. doi:10.1016/j.laa.2012.06.005Koliha, J. J., & Rakočević, V. (2003). Invertibility of the Difference of Idempotents. Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 51(1), 97-110. doi:10.1080/030810802100023499Mary, X. (2011). On generalized inverses and Green’s relations. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 434(8), 1836-1844. doi:10.1016/j.laa.2010.11.045Von Neumann, J. (1936). On Regular Rings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 22(12), 707-713. doi:10.1073/pnas.22.12.707Patrı́cio, P., & Puystjens, R. (2004). Drazin–Moore–Penrose invertibility in rings. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 389, 159-173. doi:10.1016/j.laa.2004.04.006Piziak, R., Odell, P. L., & Hahn, R. (1999). Constructing projections on sums and intersections. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 37(1), 67-74. doi:10.1016/s0898-1221(98)00242-