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Semi-Endosimple Modules and Some Applications

2009

Abstract

An R-module is called semi-endosimple if it has no proper fully invariant essential submodules. For a quasi-projective retractable module M R we show that M is finitely generated semi-endosimple if and only if the endomorphism ring of M is a finite direct sum of simple rings. For an arbitrary module M , conditions equivalent to the semi-endosimplicity of its quasi-injective hull are found. As consequences of these results, new characterizations of V-rings, right Noetherian V-rings and strongly semiprime rings are obtained. As such, a hereditary left Noetherian ring R is a finite direct sum of simple Noetherian right V-rings if and only if all finitely generated right R-modules are semi-endosimple.