Isolated submodules and skew fields (Q1840737)

The aim of this paper is to study the concept of isolated submodule and the related concepts of honest submodule and relatively divisible submodule for unital right \(R\)-modules, where \(R\) is an associative ring with identity. If \(Q\) is a subset of \(R\) that strictly contains 0, then a submodule \(B\) of a right \(R\)-module \(A\) is said to be \(Q\)-isolated (or \(Q\)-superhonest) in \(A\) if \(0\neq q\in Q\), \(x\in A\), and \(xq\in B\) imply \(x\in B\). In a standard way, one defines the \(Q\)-honest operator and the \(Q\)-isolated operator in the lattice of all submodules of a given \(R\)-module \(A\). The authors present then a series of simple properties of these operators. Reviewer's remark: The term of \(Q\)-saturated submodule, coming from modules of fractions, seems to be more appropriate than that of \(Q\)-isolated or \(Q\)-superhonest submodule.