RT journal article T1 Regular ring properties Degraded through inverse limits A1 Ara, Pere A1 Goodearl, Ken A1 O'Meara, Kevin A1 Pardo Espino, Enrique A1 Perera, Francesc A2 Matemáticas K1 exchange rings K1 inverse limit K1 regular rings K1 refinement K1 separativity AB We give a number of constructions where inverse limits seriously degrade properties of regular rings, such as unit-regularity, diagonalisation of matrices, and finite stable rank. This raises the possibility of using inverse limits to answer the long standing Separativity Problem (in the negative). PB Repositorio arXiv YR 2024 FD 2024-05-14 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32200 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32200 LA eng NO Pere Ara and Francesc Perera were partially supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (grant No. PID2020- 113047GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), by the Comissionat per Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya (grant No. 2017-SGR-1725) and by the Spanish State Research Agency through the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu Program for Centers and Units of Excellence in R&D (CEX2020-001084-M). The research of Ken Goodearl was partially supported by US National Science Foundation grant DMS 1601184. Kevin O’Meara thanks the Mathematics Departments of the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), and of both the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universidad de Cádiz (Spain) for their hospitality during the early part of our project. Enrique Pardo was partially supported by PAI III grant FQM-298 of the Junta de Andalucía, by the DGI-MINECO and European Regional Development Fund, jointly, through grant PID2020-113047GB-I00, and by the grant “Operator Theory: an interdisciplinary approach”, reference ProyExcel 00780, a project financed in the 2021 call for Grants for Excellence Projects, under a competitive bidding regime, aimed at entities qualified as Agents of the Andalusian Knowledge System, in the scope of the Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PAIDI 2020), Consejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación of the Junta de Andalucía. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 12-nov-2026