t-Extending Modules and t-Baer Modules

We introduce the notions of “t-extending modules,” and “t-Baer modules,” which are generalizations of extending modules. The second notion is also a generalization of nonsingular Baer modules. We show that a homomorphic image (hence a direct summand) of a t-extending module and a direct summand of a t-Baer module inherits the property. It is shown that a module M is t-extending if and only if M is t-Baer and t-cononsingular. The rings for which every free right module is t-extending are called right Σ-t-extending. The class of right Σ-t-extending rings properly contains the class of right Σ-extending rings. Among other equivalent conditions for such rings, it is shown that a ring R is right Σ-t-extending, if and only if, every right R-module is t-extending, if and only if, every right R-module is t-Baer, if and only if, every nonsingular right R-module is projective. Moreover, it is proved that for a ring R, every free right R-module is t-Baer if and only if Z ₂(R _R ) is a direct summand of R and every submodule of a direct product of nonsingular projective R-modules is projective.     

T-Semisimple Modules and T-Semisimple Rings

We define and investigate t-semisimple modules as a generalization of semisimple modules. A module M is called t-semisimple if every submodule N contains a direct summand K of M such that K is t-essential in N. T-semisimple modules are Morita invariant and they form a strict subclass of t-extending modules. Many equivalent conditions for a module M to be t-semisimple are found. Accordingly, M is t-semisiple, if and only if, M = Z ₂(M) ⊕ S(M) (where Z ₂(M) is the Goldie torsion submodule and S(M) is the sum of nonsingular simple submodules). A ring R is called right t-semisimple if R _R is t-semisimple. Various characterizations of right t-semisimple rings are given. For some types of rings, conditions equivalent to being t-semisimple are found, and this property is investigated in terms of chain conditions.     

On GC2 modules and their endomorphism rings

Let R be a ring. A module M_R is said to be GC₂ if for any N≤ M with N? M, N is a direct summand of M. In this article, we give some characterizations and properties of GC₂ modules and their endomorphism rings, and many results on C ₂ modules and GC₂ rings are generalized to GC₂ modules.     

When Some Complement of a Submodule Is a Summand

A module M is said to satisfy the C ₁₁ condition if every submodule of M has a (i.e., at least one) complement which is a direct summand. It is known that the C ₁ condition implies the C ₁₁ condition and that the class of C ₁₁-modules is closed under direct sums but not under direct summands. We show that if M = M ₁ ⊕ M ₂, where M has C ₁₁ and M ₁ is a fully invariant submodule of M, then both M ₁ and M ₂ are C ₁₁-modules. Moreover, the C ₁₁ condition is shown to be closed under formation of the ring of column finite matrices of size Γ, the ring of m-by-m upper triangular matrices and right essential overrings. For a module M, we also show that all essential extensions of M satisfying C ₁₁ are essential extensions of C ₁₁-modules constructed from M and certain subsets of idempotent elements of the ring of endomorphisms of the injective hull of M. Finally, we prove that if M is a C ₁₁-module, then so is its rational hull. Examples are provided to illustrate and delimit the theory.     

Strongly Duo Modules and Rings

An R-module M is called strongly duo if Tr(N, M) = N for every N ≤ M _R . Several equivalent conditions to being strongly duo are given. If M _R is strongly duo and reduced, then End _R (M) is a strongly regular ring and the converse is true when R is a Dedekind domain and M _R is torsion. Over certain rings, nonsingular strongly duo modules are precisely regular duo modules. If R is a Dedekind domain, then M _R is strongly duo if and only if either M ≈ R or M _R is torsion and duo. Over a commutative ring, strongly duo modules are precisely pq-injective duo modules and every projective strongly duo module is a multiplication module. A ring R is called right strongly duo if R _R is strongly duo. Strongly regular rings are precisely reduced (right) strongly duo rings. A ring R is Noetherian and all of its factor rings are right strongly duo if and only if R is a serial Artinian right duo ring.     

On Weak Dual Rickart Modules and Dual Baer Modules

We introduce and study the notion of wd-Rickart modules (i.e. modules M such that for every nonzero endomorphism ? of M, the image of ? contains a nonzero direct summand of M). We show that the class of rings R for which every right R-module is wd-Rickart is exactly that of right semi-artinian right V-rings. We prove that a module M is dual Baer if and only if M is wd-Rickart and M has the strong summand sum property. Several structure results for some classes of wd-Rickart modules and dual Baer modules are provided. Some relevant counterexamples are indicated.     

Gorenstein Homological Dimension with Respect to a Semidualizing Module and a Generalization of a Theorem of Bass

Let C be a semidualizing module for a commutative ring R. In this paper, we study the resulting modules of finite G _C -projective dimension in Bass class, showing that they admit G _C -projective precover. Over local ring, we prove that dim _R (M) ≤ 𝒢? _C  ? id _R (M) for any nonzero finitely generated R-module M, which generalizes a result due to Bass.     

Rugged modules: The opposite of flatness

Relative notions of flatness are introduced as a mean to gauge the extent of the flatness of any given module. Every module is thus endowed with a flatness domain and, for every ring, the collection of flatness domains of all of its modules is a lattice with respect to class inclusion. This lattice, the flatness profile of the ring, allows us, in particular, to focus on modules which have a smallest flatness domain (namely, one consisting of all regular modules.) We establish that such modules exist over arbitrary rings and we call them Rugged Modules. Rings all of whose (cyclic) modules are rugged are shown to be precisely the von Neumann regular rings. We consider rings without a flatness middle class (i.e., rings for which modules must be either flat or rugged.) We obtain that, over a right Noetherian ring every left module is rugged or flat if and only if every right module is poor or injective if and only if R = S×T, where S is semisimple Artinian and T is either Morita equivalent to a right PCI-domain, or T is right Artinian whose Jacobson radical properly contains no nonzero ideals. Character modules serve to bridge results about flatness and injectivity profiles; in particular, connections between rugged and poor modules are explored. If R is a ring whose regular left modules are semisimple, then a right module M is rugged if and only if its character left module M⁺ is poor. Rugged Abelian groups are fully characterized and shown to coincide precisely with injectively poor and projectively poor Abelian groups. Also, in order to get a feel for the class of rugged modules over an arbitrary ring, we consider the homological ubiquity of rugged modules in the category of all modules in terms of the feasibility of rugged precovers and covers for arbitrary modules.     

On a class of semicommutative modules

Let R be a ring with identity, M a right R-module and S = End _R (M). In this note, we introduce S-semicommutative, S-Baer, S-q.-Baer and S-p.q.-Baer modules. We study the relations between these classes of modules. Also we prove if M is an S-semicommutative module, then M is an S-p.q.-Baer module if and only if M[x] is an S[x]-p.q.-Baer module, M is an S-Baer module if and only if M[x] is an S[x]-Baer module, M is an S-q.-Baer module if and only if M[x] is an S[x]-q.-Baer module.     

Completely Arithmetical Rings

We introduce a type of commutative ring R in which its ideal lattice has a strong form of the distributive property. We show that if R is reduced, then it is a semilocal von Neumann regular ring. In this case, we show that the K ₁ group of this ring has a relatively simple structure.     

Noetherian rings with almost injective simple modules

We characterize right Noetherian rings over which all simple modules are almost injective. It is proved that R is such a ring, if and only if, the complements of semisimple submodules of every R-module M are direct summands of M, if and only if, R is a finite direct sum of right ideals I_r, where I_r is either a Noetherian V-module with zero socle, or a simple module, or an injective module of length 2. A commutative Noetherian ring for which all simple modules are almost injective is precisely a finite direct product of rings R_i, where R_i is either a field or a quasi-Frobenius ring of length 2. We show that for commutative rings whose all simple modules are almost injective, the properties of Kasch, (semi)perfect, semilocal, quasi-Frobenius, Artinian, and Noetherian coincide.     

𝔏-Rickart Modules

It is well known that the Rickart property of rings is not a left-right symmetric property. We extend the notion of the left Rickart property of rings to a general module theoretic setting and define 𝔏-Rickart modules. We study this notion for a right R-module M _R where R is any ring and obtain its basic properties. While it is known that the endomorphism ring of a Rickart module is a right Rickart ring, we show that the endomorphism ring of an 𝔏-Rickart module is not a left Rickart ring in general. If M _R is a finitely generated 𝔏-Rickart module, we prove that End _R (M) is a left Rickart ring. We prove that an 𝔏-Rickart module with no set of infinitely many nonzero orthogonal idempotents in its endomorphism ring is a Baer module. 𝔏-Rickart modules are shown to satisfy a certain kind of nonsingularity which we term “endo-nonsingularity.” Among other results, we prove that M is endo-nonsingular and End _R (M) is a left extending ring iff M is a Baer module and End _R (M) is left cononsingular.     

When Are Covers Relative to Two Classes Isomorphic

Let ?₁ ? ?₂ be classes of right R-modules, we introduce ?₁-covering modules and projective modules relative to ?₂ to characterize the relations between the existences of ?₁-covers, ?₂-covers and the classes ?₁, ?₂. As corollaries, every module in ? _n is an ?-covering module if and only if every flat cover is an ? _n -cover for each right module if and only if R is a von Neumann regular ring whenever wD(R) < ∞; every flat right R-module is projective relative to 𝒫 if and only if every flat cover is a projective cover for each right module if and only if R is right perfect.     

Supplement Submodules of Injective Modules

An R-module M is called almost injective if M is a supplement submodule of every module which contains M. The module M is called F-almost injective if every factor module of M is almost injective. It is shown that a ring R is a right H-ring if and only if R is right perfect and every almost injective module is injective. We prove that a ring R is semisimple if and only if the R-module R _R is F-almost injective.     

Semiregular Modules with Respect to a Fully Invariant Submodule

Abstract

Let M be a left R-module and F a submodule of M for any ring R. We call M F-semiregular if for every x ∈ M, there exists a decomposition M = A ⊕ B such that A is projective, A ≤ Rx and Rx ∩ B ≤ F. This definition extends several notions in the literature. We investigate some equivalent conditions to F-semiregular modules and consider some certain fully invariant submodules such as Z(M), Soc(M), δ(M). We prove, among others, that if M is a finitely generated projective module, then M is quasi-injective if and only if M is Z(M)-semiregular and M ⊕ M is CS. If M is projective Soc(M)-semiregular module, then M is semiregular. We also characterize QF-rings R with J(R)² = 0.     

A Generalization of Divided Domains and Its Connection to Weak Baer Going-Down Rings

Many results on going-down domains and divided domains are generalized to the context of rings with von Neumann regular total quotient rings. A (commutative unital) ring R is called regular divided if each P ∈ Spec(R)?(Max(R) ∩ Min(R)) is comparable with each principal regular ideal of R. Among rings having von Neumann regular total quotient rings, the regular divided rings are the pullbacks K× _K/P D where K is von Neumann regular, P ∈ Spec(K) and D is a divided domain. Any regular divided ring (for instance, regular comparable ring) with a von Neumann regular total quotient ring is a weak Baer going-down ring. If R is a weak Baer going-down ring and T is an extension ring with a von Neumann regular total quotient ring such that no regular element of R becomes a zero-divisor in T, then R ? T satisfies going-down. If R is a weak Baer ring and P ∈ Spec(R), then R + PR _(P) is a going-down ring if and only if R/P and R _P are going-down rings. The weak Baer going-down rings R such that Spec(R)?Min(R) has a unique maximal element are characterized in terms of the existence of suitable regular divided overrings.