Projective modules are determined by their radical factors. (Q886270): Difference between revisions

Let \(R\) be an associative ring with identity. All modules considered are unital right \(R\)-modules. The author shows that two infinitely generated projective modules are isomorphic whenever they have isomorphic factors modulo their Jacobson radical. Some applications of this result to semilocal rings with indecomposable non-finitely generated projective modules are given. For example, the author shows that there are at most countably many indecomposable projective modules over a semilocal ring.