Quasi-Frobenius Rings and Generalizations QF-3 and QF-1 Rings Notes

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Hiroyuki Tachikawa Tokyo University of Education, Tokyo/Japan

Ouasi-Frobenius Rings and Generalizations OF-3 and OF-1 Rings Notes by Claus Michael Ringel

Springer-Verlag Berlin· Heidelberg· New York 1973

Lecture Notes in Mathematics Edited by A. Dold, Heidelberg and B. Eckmann, ZUrich

351

Hiroyuki Tachikawa Tokyo University of Education, Tokyo/Japan

Ouasi-Frobenius Rings and Generalizations OF-3 and OF-1 Rings Notes by Claus Michael Ringel

Springer-Verlag Berlin· Heidelberg· New York 1973

AMS Subject Classifications (1970): 16A36

ISBN 3-540-06501-6 Springer-Verlag Berlin' Heidelberg' New York ISBN 0-387-06501-6 Springer-Verlag New York· Heidelberg· Berlin This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin' Heidelberg 1973. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-14490. Printed in Germany. Offsetdruck: Julius Beltz, Hernsbach/Bergstr.

INTRODUCTION

The class of quasi-Frobenius rings (short:

QF rings)

is one of the most interesting classes of non-semisimple rings.

Since R. M. Thrall [53J introduced QF-l, QF-2 and

QF-3 rings as its generalizations, already a quarter of a century has passed.

During these years important

developments have taken place in the theory of these rings such as the appearance of homological dimensions, perfect and semi-perfect rings, Morita duality and maximal quotient rings.

The purpose of these lectures was to

give an up-to-date account of these developments. Though there are many generalizations of QF-3 algebras to arbitrary rings, we shall adopt in the following only Thrall's original definition:

a ring R is said to be

left QF-3 provided there exists a (unique) minimal faithful left R-module RU,

That is, RU is faithful, and is

isomorphic to a direct summand of every faithful left R-module.

Here, it is to be noted that we do not impose

any other restriction on R.

Then, as was proved by

Colby-Rutter [9J, RU is projective and isomorphic to the injective hull of a direct sum of finitely many simple left R-modules.

We can identify RU with a left ideal Re,

= e.

Right QF-3 rings are defined similarly, and rings

IV which are both left QF-3 and right QF-3 will simply be called QF-3 rings. Assume now that R is a QF-3 ring and minimal faithful modules with e 2

and fR

r

e, f2

e

are R Then we

n.

may consider fRf and eRe as rings, and fRe as an fRf-eRebimodule.

The first remarkable fact is that the functors

Homf Rf (- , fRe) and Hom ( - , fRe) define a Morita duality e He between the category of reflexive left fRf-modules and the category of reflexive right eRe-modules, and, moreover, fRffR and Re e Re bot