On a class of dual Rickart modules (Q2214155)

A module \(M\) is called \textsl{dual Rickart} (see [\textit{G. Lee} et al., Commun. Algebra 39, No. 11, 4036--4058 (2011; Zbl 1262.16005)]) if \(\mathrm{Im}f\) is a direct summand of \(M\) for every \(f\in \mathrm{End}_{R}(M)\). A module \(M\) is called \textsl{stable} (see [the reviewer and \textit{P. Schultz}, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 82, No. 1, 99--112 (2010; Zbl 1209.16005)]) if all endomorphic images are fully invariant. In this paper, the author investigates the intersection of the class of dual Rickart modules with the class of stable modules. An \(R\)-module \(M\) is called an \textsl{sd-Rickart} (also called \emph{strongly dual Rickart}) module if, for every nonzero endomorphism \(f\) of \(M\), \(\mathrm{Im}f\) is a fully invariant direct summand of \(M\). The main results are the following Theorem 2.1. Let a module \(M=\oplus _{i}M_{i}\) be a direct sum of submodules \(M_{i}\), \(i\in I\). Then the following statements are equivalent: (i) \(M\) is an sd-Rickart module; (ii) \(M_{i}\) is an sd-Rickart submodule of \(M\) for every \(i\in I\) and \(\mathrm{Hom}_{R}(M_{i},M_{j})=0\) for all distinct \(i,j\in I\). A module \(M\) is said to be \textsl{radical} if \(\mathrm{Rad}(M)=M\). The sum of all radical submodules of a module \(M\) is denoted by \(P(M)\). If \(R\) is a commutative Noetherian ring, then \(\mathrm{Ass}(M)\) denotes the set of all prime ideals associated with \(M\). Theorem 2.2. Let \(R\) be a commutative Noetherian ring and let \( \Omega _{R}\) be the set of maximal ideals of \(R\). Also let \(M\) be an \(R\) -module such that \(\mathrm{Ass}(M)\cap \Omega _{R}\) is a finite set. Then the following conditions are equivalent: (i) \(M\) is a dual Rickart \(R\)-module; (ii) \(M=M_{1}\oplus M_{2}\) is a direct sum of a dual Rickart submodule \(M_{1} \) and a semisimple submodule \(M_{2}\) such that \(M_{1}=\mathrm{Rad}(M_{1})= \mathrm{Rad}(M)=P(M)\) and \(\mathrm{Hom}_{R}(M_{2},M_{1})=0\). Proposition 2.9. Let \(M\) be a torsion-free module over a commutative domain \(R\). If \(M\) is an sd-Rickart \(R\)-module, then \(M\) is injective. In addition, a generalization of sd-Rickart modules is studied, requiring, for every nonzero endomorphism \(f\) of \(M\), that \(\mathrm{Im}f\) contains a nonzero fully invariant direct summand of \(M\).