When every torsion preradical is a torsion radical (Q4700486)

Let \(R\) be a ring and let \(\operatorname{torsp}R\) and \(\operatorname{tors}R\) be the set of all torsion preradicals on \(\text{Mod-}R\) and the set of all idempotent elements of \(\operatorname{torsp}R\), respectively. In this paper the author examines rings \(R\) with \(\operatorname{torsp}R=\operatorname{tors}R\), or equivalently, those rings \(R\) all of whose right topologizing filters are right Gabriel filters. First, the author establishes some general properties of rings \(R\) with \(\operatorname{torsp}R=\operatorname{tors}R\) and then he investigates rings \(R\) with \(\operatorname{torsp}R=\operatorname{tors}R\), which also possess relative Gabriel dimension. Next he provides examples of rings \(R\) with \(\operatorname{torsp}R=\operatorname{tors}R\) but which are neither right \(V\)-rings, nor right Noetherian. This answers an open question posed by D. E. Handelman, A. M. D. Viola-Prioli and J. E. Viola-Prioli, and M. L. Teply. Finally, he develops a construction technique which produces examples of rings \(R\) with \(\operatorname{torsp}R=\operatorname{tors}R\) but which are not decomposable into a finite direct product of prime rings. The paper ends with a list of questions the author has been unable to answer.