ATOMIC MODULES

Other special types of modules and ideals in commutative rings (13C13) Commutative Artinian rings and modules, finite-dimensional algebras (13E10) Integral domains (13G05) Artinian rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16P20) Chain conditions on annihilators and summands: Goldie-type conditions (16P60)

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A module \(M\) over an associative ring \(R\) is called \(\alpha\)-atomic for an ordinal \(\alpha\) if its Noetherian dimension (also called codeviation, dual Krull dimension, or N-dimension) \(n\)-\(\dim(M)\) equals \(\alpha\) but \(n\)-\(\dim(N)<\alpha\) for every proper submodule \(N\) of \(M\). This concept is thus dual to that of a (Krull) critical module. After providing several basic results concerning this invariant, the authors study it for Artinian modules. They prove that in general a module is Artinian if and only if it has an atomic chain. For a commutative domain \(R\) that is not a field an atomic \(R\)-module \(A\) with \(\text{Ann}(A)=0\) is Artinian if and only if (i) there exists a prime ideal \(P\neq 0\) such that every element of \(A\) is annihilated by some power of \(P\), and (ii) whenever a proper submodule \(B\subset A\) is a divisible torsion-free \(R/Q\)-module for a prime \(Q\), then \(Q\) is a maximal ideal.

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