Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In [2] the structure of all semiperfect rings with abelian group of units has been obtained in terms of commutative local rings. It follows easily that the structure of semiperfect rings with elementary abelian group of units is determined by commutative local rings whose unit groups are elementary abelian. In this note such local rings are completely characterized. It is shown that a local ring having an elementary abelian group of units has characteristic two, four or eight and is a homomorphic image of ZkG/E(ZkG) where G is some elementary 2-group and E(ZkG) is the ideal of ZkG generated by {1 - u2:u∈(ZkG)*}.