Lectures on Injective Modules and Quotient Rings

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49 Carl Faith Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N. J.

1967

Lectures on Injective Modules and Quotient Rings

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Springer-Verlag· Berlin· Heidelberg· New York

All rights, especially that of translation into foreign languages, reserved. It is also forbidden to reproduce this book, either whole or in part, by photornechanlcal means (photostat, microfilm and/or microcard) or by other procedure without written permission from Springer Verlag. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin' Heidelberg 1967. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-31680. Printed in Germany. Title No. 7369.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page IV

PREFACE TO THE SPRINGER EDITION

VI

INTRODUCTION

VIII

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

IX

SPECIAL SYMBOLS

XI

O.

DEFINITIONS

1.

1•

INJECTIVE MODULES

13

2.

ESSENTIAL EXTENSIONS AND THE INJECTIVE HULL

22

3.

QUASI-INJECTIVE MODULES

35

4.

RADICAL AND SEMIPRIMITIVITY IN RINGS

44

5.

THE ENDOMORPHISM RING OF A QUASI-INJECTIVE MODULE

51

6.

NOETHERIAN, ARTINIAN, AND SEMI SIMPLE MODULES AND RINGS

58

7.

RATIONAL EXTENSIONS AND LATTICES OF CLOSED SUBMODULES

64

8.

MAXIMAL QUOTIENT RINGS

76

9.

SEMIPRIME RINGS WITH MAXIMUM CONDITION

82

10.

NIL AND SINGULAR IDEALS UNDER MAXIMUM CONDITIONS

86

11 •

STRUCTURE OF NOETHERIAN PRIME RINGS

96

12.

MAXIMAL QUOTIENT RINGS

105

13.

QUOTIENT RINGS AND DIRECT PRODUCTS OF FULL LINEAR RINGS

123

14.

JOHNSON RINGS

127

1 5.

OPEN PROBLEMS

132

REFERENCES

135

ADDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

138

INDEX

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PREFACE TO THE SPRINGER EDITION These Lectures were written for beginning graduate students, and for that reason are self-contained except for one or two of the chapters at the very end. The main part of the Lectures can be covered in once-weekly sessions of 75-90 minutes each running through two semesters. I have taken the opportunity to make a number of revisions, have added to the bibliography, but have not included any of the new literature on the subject. Gabriel's thesis listed in the additional bibliography has obtained the theorems of Johnson, Utumi, and Goldie, among others, functorially through the concept of localizing subcategories of abelian categories. Lambek's excellent text, Rings and Modules (Blaisdell 1966), contains some results on quotient rings not covered in these Lectures, and his comments on the literature (Ibid. pp. 166-171) are especially valuable.

SUMMARY OF REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS (1)

I have revised the treatment of the Johnson ring of quotients by first intro-

ducing Utumi's ring of quotients, using Lambek's [2] characterization, and obtaining Johnson's ring of quotients as a special case. This appears at the beginning of §8. (2)

I have revised §12 on maximal quotient rings, and also added enough material

to get the following theorem: If

R

is a prime ring, and if

quotient ring ring of

S

of

R

such that

e K

is an idempotent in the (Johnson) maximal

= eSe f"\

R

0

eSe

An example is adduced to show that when in addition

ring of

is the maximal quotient

K. R ,then

eSe

S

is the classical quotient