Rings and modules which are stable under automorphisms of their injective hulls. (Q376030): Difference between revisions

In this quite interesting paper, the authors study rings and modules which are invariant under automorphisms of their injective hulls. Such rings (modules) are called automorphism-invariant rings (modules). The authors' main theorem is that if \(M\) is an automorphism-invariant module then \(M=X+Y\) (direct) for a quasi-injective module \(X\), a square-free module \(Y\) orthogonal to \(X\). Further \(X,Y\) are relatively injective. In the next section, the authors study nonsingular, automorphism-invariant rings. Here they prove that if \(R\) is a right nonsingular, right automorphism-invariant ring then \(R\) is isomorphic to the direct product \(S\times T\) for a right self-injective ring \(S\), a right square-free ring \(T\) and \(T\) has the property that for any prime ideal \(P\) of \(T\) which is not essential (as a right \(T\)-module) in \(T\), the factor ring \(T/P\) is a division ring. From this they deduce that every prime, right nonsingular, right automorphism-invariant ring \(R\) is right self-injective. The authors give an example to show that this result is not true if ``prime'' is replaced by ``semiprime''. As corollaries, the authors get affirmative answers to questions posed by Singh and Srivastava and Clark and Huynh. Next, the authors study rings over which every cyclic right \(R\)-module is automorphism-invariant. Finally, the authors prove that an \(R\)-module \(M\) is automorphism-invariant if and only if it is pseudo-injective. Here ``if'' part is proved by Lee and Zhou and the ``only if'' part is the question posed by them.