Rings and modules which are stable under automorphisms of their injective hulls. (Q376030)

In this quite interesting paper, the authors study rings and modules which are invariant under automorphisms of their injective hulls. Such rings (modules) are called automorphism-invariant rings (modules).NEWLINENEWLINE The authors' main theorem is that if \(M\) is an automorphism-invariant module then \(M=X+Y\) (direct) for a quasi-injective module \(X\), a square-free module \(Y\) orthogonal to \(X\). Further \(X,Y\) are relatively injective. In the next section, the authors study nonsingular, automorphism-invariant rings. Here they prove that if \(R\) is a right nonsingular, right automorphism-invariant ring then \(R\) is isomorphic to the direct product \(S\times T\) for a right self-injective ring \(S\), a right square-free ring \(T\) and \(T\) has the property that for any prime ideal \(P\) of \(T\) which is not essential (as a right \(T\)-module) in \(T\), the factor ring \(T/P\) is a division ring. From this they deduce that every prime, right nonsingular, right automorphism-invariant ring \(R\) is right self-injective. The authors give an example to show that this result is not true if ``prime'' is replaced by ``semiprime''.NEWLINENEWLINE As corollaries, the authors get affirmative answers to questions posed by Singh and Srivastava and Clark and Huynh. Next, the authors study rings over which every cyclic right \(R\)-module is automorphism-invariant. Finally, the authors prove that an \(R\)-module \(M\) is automorphism-invariant if and only if it is pseudo-injective. Here ``if'' part is proved by Lee and Zhou and the ``only if'' part is the question posed by them.