Finitely pseudo-Frobenius rings

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A ring \(R\) is called right finitely pseudo-Frobenius (briefly, right FPF) if each finitely generated faithful right \(R\)-module generates the category Mod-\(R\) of all right \(R\)-modules. The monograph by \textit{C. Faith} and \textit{S. Page} [``FPF Ring Theory. Faithful modules and generators of mod-\(R\) (Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Ser. 88, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1984; Zbl 0554.16007)] is the standard reference for results on FPF rings prior to 1984. The first half of the paper under review gives a brief, but very useful, survey of progress in FPF ring theory since the publication of Faith and Page. In particular, the author reviews recent results, by numerous authors, on FPF rings which are, in turn, semiperfect, Noetherian, von Neumann regular, nonsingular, and commutative, and he also provides updates on some problems raised in Faith and Page and elsewhere. The second half of the paper considers the FPF property for a generalized triangular matrix ring \(R\) formed from rings \(S\) and \(T\) and a \((T,S)\)-bimodule \(M\) (so that \(R\) is the trivial extension \((S\times T)\ltimes M\)). Under the assumptions that \(T=\text{End}_S(M)\), \(M_S\) is Artinian, and \(T\) is a semiperfect ring, he proves that if \(R\) is right FPF then \(S\) is right FPF, \(M_S\) is injective and the right annihilator of \(M_S\) is an essential right ideal of \(S\); moreover, the converse of this holds if the double annihilator of \(M/\text{Soc}(M)\) is zero. From this it follows that if either (i) \(M_S\) is finitely generated semisimple or (ii) \(S\) is right nonsingular and \(M_S\) is of finite length then \(R\) is right FPF if and only if \(S\) is right FPF and \(M_S\) is singular and injective. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0956.00038].











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