The behavior of ascending chain conditions on submodules of bounded finite generation in direct sums (Q502986)

Given any ring \(R\), any right \(R\)-module \(M_R\), and any positive integer \(n\geq1\), one says that \(M_R\) has \(n\)-acc (also called the right pan-acc property), if every chain of \(n\)-generated \(R\)-submodules \(L_1 \subseteq L_2 \subseteq \cdots \subseteq M\) stabilizes. Clearly, pan-acc is a weakening of the usual Noetherian condition. A ring has right \(n\)-acc, (or right pan-acc), if the right regular module \(R\) has the corresponding property. In this article, the author constructs a ring \(R\) that is a right \(n\)-acc, \(n\geq 1\) such that no full matrix ring over \(R\) has the ascending chain condition on cyclic right ideals. Thus, the right pan-acc property is not a Morita invariant. Moreover, a direct sum of (free) modules with pan-acc does not necessarily even have 1-acc.