Direct summands of products. (Q1347769)

Let \(R\) be a ring. All modules considered are right modules. A module \(M\) is said to be (finitely) product-rigid if any (finitely presented) direct summand of a product of copies of \(M\) having a local endomorphism ring is isomorphic to some indecomposable direct summand of \(M\) itself. The author investigates when is an indecomposable direct summand of a product of modules \(\prod_{i\in I}M_i\) isomorphic to an indecomposable direct summand of some \(M_i\), in terms of the existence of preenvelopes and also in terms of finiteness conditions on \(M=\coprod_{i\in I}M_i\) viewed as module over its endomorphism ring. The author also studies when the property product-rigid is inherited by direct summands.