On linear representation of $\ast$-regular rings having representable ortholattice of projections

Abstract

This paper aims at the following results: \begin{enumerate} \item The class of all $*$-regular rings forms a variety. \item A subdirectly irreducible $*$-regular ring $R$ is faithfully representable (i.e. isomorphic to a subring of an endomorphisms ring of vector spaces, where the involution is given by adjunction with respect to a scalar product on the vector space) if so is its ortholattice of projections. \end{enumerate} This is a short version of the second author's PhD thesis.