Two criteria to check whether ideals are direct sums of cyclically presented modules (Q1789662)

The question of the relationship between properties of prime ideals of a ring and those of all ideals in a ring is an old one in commutative algebra. For example, it is known that every ideal in a commutative in \(R\) is principal (resp. finitely generated) if and only if every prime ideal of \(R\) is principal (resp. finitely generated) (Attributed to I. M. Isaacs in [\textit{I. Kaplansky}, Commutative rings. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc. (1970; Zbl 0203.34601)]; resp. [\textit{I. S. Cohen}, Duke Math. J. 17, 27--42 (1950; Zbl 0041.36408)]. In this paper a similar type of question is studied. The main theorem shows that every ideal of a local ring \((R,\mathcal{M})\) is a direct sum of cyclically presented \(R\)-modules if and only if every prime ideal is a direct sum of cyclically presented \(R\)-modules if and only if \(R\) is either a principal ideal ring or \(\mathcal{M} = Rx \oplus Ry,\) where \(x,y \in \mathrm{Nil}(R)\) and \(R/\mathrm{Ann}(x)\) and \(R/\mathrm{Ann}(y)\) are principal ideal rings.