CS Modules Relative to a Torsion Theory

In this article we introduce two new concepts, those of a τ-CS and a s-τ-CS module, which are both torsion-theoretic analogues of CS modules. We investigate their relationship with the familiar concepts of τ-injective, τ-simple and τ-uniform modules and compare them with τ-complemented (τ-injective) modules, which were considered by other authors as torsion-theoretic analogues of CS modules. We are interested in decomposing a relatively CS module into indecomposable submodules, and in determining when a direct sum of relatively CS modules is relatively CS. This paper forms part of the Ph.D. thesis of the first author, written under the supervision of the second author. The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Committee of New Zealand.