Perfect rings for which the converse of Schur's lemma holds (Q5940011)

Schur's lemma says that the endomorphism ring of a simple module is a division ring. The converse is false, even for Artinian rings. The authors show that the following are equivalent for a perfect ring \(R\): (i) The converse of Schur's lemma holds, i.e., every module is simple whenever its endomorphism ring is a division ring; (ii) \(R\) is isomorphic to a finite product of primary rings; (iii) Every \(R\)-module with semiprime endomorphism ring is semisimple; (iv) Every \(R\)-module with von Neumann regular endomorphism ring is semisimple.