ABELIAN EXCHANGE MODULES

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The question when the finite exchange property implies the full exchange property for modules has been receiving attention since 1984. It was shown by \textit{S. Dhompongsa} and \textit{H. Tansee} [Commun. Algebra 31, No. 2, 859-868 (2003; Zbl 1043.16001)] that this is true for Abelian modules. In this paper the author points out that there seems to be an error in the cardinality argument of the aforementioned paper. Using a different approach, the author succeeds in recovering the result. A module \(M\) is called finitely complemented if every direct summand of \(M\) has only finitely many complements in \(M\). In an Abelian module, every summand has only one complement, so the concept of a finitely complemented module is generalization of the concept of an Abelian module. It is first proven that a finitely complemented module with finite exchange has countable exchange, and then it is shown that if the endomorphism ring of a finitely complemented module is regular, then \(M\) has full exchange.











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