Projection invariant extending rings (Q2816883)

A module \(M\) is extending (resp. \(\pi \)-extending) if for every submodule \( X \) of \(M\) (resp. every projective invariant submodule \(X\) of \(M),\) there is a direct summand \(D\leq M\) such that \(X\) is essential in \(D.\) A ring \(R\) is extending (resp. \(\pi \)-extending) provided the module \(R_{R}\) is extending (resp. \(\pi \)-extending). It is known that extending implies \(\pi \)-extending and in general the converse does not hold.NEWLINENEWLINEThe extending condition fails to transfer from a base ring to many ring extensions. It is thus natural to ask and investigate if this weaker notion of \(\pi \)-extending is better behaved with respect to such ring extensions. In this paper, it is shown that it is indeed the case. In particular, the authors characterize the \(\pi \)-extending generalized triangular matrix rings and then show that if \(R_{R}\) is \(\pi \)-extending, then so is \(T_{T}\) where \(T\) is an overring of \(R\) which can be an essential extension of \(R,\) an \(n\times n\) upper triangular matrix ring over \(R,\) a column finite or a column, and row finite matrix ring over \(R\) or a splitt-nul extension of \(R.\)