Rings whose cyclic modules are pure-injective or pure-projective (Q296655): Difference between revisions

It is known due to \textit{B. L. Osofsky} [J. Algebra 4, 373--387 (1966; Zbl 0171.29303); erratum 9, 120 (1968)] that if every cyclic right module over a ring \(R\) is injective, then \(R\) is semisimple-Artinian. Inspired by the result of Osofsky, the author of this paper studies rings over which every cyclic left module is pure-injective or pure-projective. This is indeed a very natural question to look at. The author shows that if every cyclic left \(R\)-module is pure-injective, then \(R\) is a left perfect ring. He further shows that a ring \(R\) is left Noetherian if and only if every cyclic left \(R\)-module is pure-projective. As a consequence, it follows that if every cyclic left \(R\)-module is pure-injective and pure-projective, then \(R\) is a left Artinian ring.