Lifting modules, extending modules and their applications to generalized uniserial rings (Q2266105)

A ring R is a quasi-Frobenius ring iff every injective R-module is projective or iff every projective R-module is injective. A similar statement holds for a uniserial ring R with respect to quasi-injective and quasi-projective R-modules. The author proves similar characterizations of a generalized uniserial ring in terms of extending and lifting modules. In fact, the following result holds: Let R be a given ring. Then the following conditions are equivalent for R: 1) every extending R-module is a lifting module. 2) every quasi-injective R-module is a lifting module. 3) R is a right perfect ring and every lifting R- module is an extending module. 4) Every quasi-projective R-module is an extending module. 5) R is a generalized uniserial ring.