A generalization of Rickart modules.

Free, projective, and flat modules and ideals in associative algebras (16D40) Other classes of modules and ideals in associative algebras (16D80) von Neumann regular rings and generalizations (associative algebraic aspects) (16E50) Endomorphism rings; matrix rings (16S50)

Abstract: Let

R

be an arbitrary ring with identity and

M

a right

R

-module with

S =

End

_{R} (M)

. In this paper we introduce

p i

-Rickart modules as a generalization of generalized right principally projective rings as well as that of Rickart modules. The module

M

is called {it

p i

-Rickart} if for any

f i n S

, there exist

e^{2} = e i n S

and a positive integer

n

such that

r_{M} (f^{n}) = e M

. We prove that several results of Rickart modules can be extended to

p i

-Rickart modules for this general settings, and investigate relations between a

p i

-Rickart module and its endomorphism ring.

Review text

A right \(R\)-module \(M\) is defined to be \(\pi\)-Rickart if for any \(f\in S=\mathrm{End}_R(M)\), there exists an \(e^2=e\in S\) and a positive integer \(n\) such that \(r_M(f^n)=eM\). This concept dualizes the concept of dual \(\pi\)-Rickart modules which the authors introduced [in Rev. Colomb. Mat. 46, No. 2, 167-183 (2012)]. Dual \(\pi\)-Rickart modules generalize the notion of dual Rickart modules and extend the concept of \(\pi\)-regular rings. The concept of \(\pi\)-Rickart modules itself coincides with that of generalized right principally projectivity on \(R_R\). Any Rickard module is shown to be \(\pi\)-Rickart, with the inverse true if \(S\) is a reduced ring. Examples show that the two concepts do not in general coincide. Conditions are found for the concepts of \(\pi\)-Rickart, Rickart and Baer modules to coincide. Closure properties of \(\pi\)-Rickart modules are investigated. For example, direct summands of \(\pi\)-Rickart modules are shown to be \(\pi\)-Rickart, while direct sums and submodules of \(\pi\)-Rickart modules need not be. This is illustrated by examples and some conditions are found for direct sums or submodules of \(\pi\)-Rickart modules to be \(\pi\)-Rickart. Properties of endomorphism rings of \(\pi\)-Rickart modules are studied. Several conditions on the endomorphism ring \(S\) are found that force particular types of modules to be \(\pi\)-Rickart, for example: (1) If \(M\) is a flat left \(S\)-module and \(S\) is a generalized right principally projective ring, then \(M\) is \(\pi\)-Rickart as an \(R\)-module. (2) If \(M\) is an \(R\)-module, \(S\) a \(\pi\)-regular ring, then \(M\) is a \(\pi\)-Rickart \(R\)-module. (3) If \(M\) is an \(R\)-module with \(C_2\) condition, then \(M\) is \(\pi\)-Rickart if and only if \(S\) is a regular ring. (4) \(S\) is a local ring with nil Jacobson radical if and only if \(M\) is an indecomposable \(\pi\)-Rickart module.

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