Covering classes and uniserial modules

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Abstract: We apply minimal weakly generating sets to study the existence of Add(UR)-covers for a uniserial module UR. If UR is a uniserial right module over a ring R, then S:=End(UR) has at most two maximal (right, left, two-sided) ideals: one is the set I of all endomorphisms that are not injective, and the other is the set K of all endomorphisms of UR that are not surjective. We prove that if UR is either finitely generated, or artinian, or IsubsetK, then the class Add(UR) is covering if and only if it is closed under direct limit. Moreover, we study endomorphism rings of artinian uniserial modules giving several examples.


Let \(R\) be a ring with identity element. Let \(N_R\) and \(M_R\) be two \(R\)-modules and let \(X\) be a generating set of Hom(\(N_R, M_R\)). A family \(\left\{s_x |x\in X\right\}\) of elements of \(S=\mathrm{End}(N_R)\) is said to be summable if, for every \(n \in N_R ,s_x (n) \neq 0\) only for finitely many \(x \in X\). \(X\subset\mathrm{Hom}(N_R,M_R) \) weakly generates \(\mathrm{Hom}(N_R, M_R) \) if any element \(g\in \mathrm{Hom}(N_R, M_R)\) can be written as \(\sum_{x \in X}x s_x\) for some summable family \(\left\{s_x |x\in X\right\}\) of elements in \(S\). \(X\) is a minimal weakly generating set for \(\mathrm{Hom}(N_R, M_R)\) if no element \(x \in X\) can be weakly generated by \(X - \left\{x\right\}\). For \(M_R\), let \(\mathrm{Add}(M_R)\) denote the class of all right \(R\)-modules that are isomorphic to a direct summand of a direct sum \(M_{R}^{(I)}\) of copies of \(M_R\). \( U_R\) is a uniserial \(R\)-module, if its submodules are totally ordered by inclusion. The authors of this paper apply the concept of minimal weakly generating sets to study the existence of \(\mathrm{Add}(U_R)\)-covers for a uniserial module \(U_R\). If \(U_R\) is a uniserial right module over a ring R, then \(S=\mathrm{End}(U_R) \) has at most two maximal (right, left, two-sided) ideals: one is the set \(I\) of all endomorphisms that are not injective, and the other is the set \(K\) of all endomorphisms of \(U_R\) that are not surjective. They prove that if \(U_R\) is either finitely generated, or Artinian, or \(I \subset K\), then the class \(\mathrm{Add}(U_R)\) is covering if and only if it is closed under direct limit. Moreover, they study endomorphism rings of Artinian uniserial modules and they provided several examples.











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