On some classes of Artinian rings (Q1969120)

The authors study certain classes of Artinian rings whose modules have nice decomposition properties. It is shown that if every countably generated right \(R\)-module is the direct sum of a projective module and a CS-module (i.e., a module with all complements being direct summands), then \(R\) is right Artinian with Jacobson radical cube zero. The main theorem of the paper gives various interesting characterizations of rings over which every countably generated right module is the direct sum of a projective module and a quasi-continuous module. Such rings are precisely the right Artinian rings over which every finitely generated indecomposable right module is projective or quasi-injective, and their structure is completely determined in ideal-theoretic terms. It is also shown that this is precisely the class of rings over which every right module is the direct sum of a projective module and a quasi-injective module. Finally, an example is given of a ring \(R\) that is (right and left) Artinian hereditary and right serial, with Jacobson radical square zero and every finitely generated indecomposable right module projective or quasi-injective, but \(R\) is not left serial. Note that Artinian serial rings with Jacobson radical square zero are precisely rings for which every right (or left) module is a CS-module, or equivalently, every right (or left) module is the direct sum of a projective module and a semisimple module (cf. \textit{N.~V.~Dung} and \textit{P.~F.~Smith} [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 102, No. 3, 273-287 (1995; Zbl 0919.16002)]).