RINGS WHOSE MODULES ARE DIRECT SUMS OF EXTENDING MODULES


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Er N. F.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, cilt.137, sa.7, ss.2265-2271, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

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We prove that for a ring R, the following are equivalent: (i) Every right R-module is a direct sum of extending modules, and (ii) R has finite type and right colocal type (i.e., every indecomposable right R-module has simple socle). Thus, in this case, R is two-sided Artinian and right serial, and every right R-module is a direct sum of finitely generated uniform modules. This property of a ring is not left-right symmetric. A consequence is the following: R is Artinian serial if and only if every R-module is a direct sum of extending modules if and only if R is left serial with every right R-module a direct sum of extending modules.