Die absteigende Loewy-Länge von Endomorphismenringen (Q792432)

There is given an upper bound for the descending Loewy length of the ring \(S=End(M),\) where M is a semi-artinian R-module, satisfying some extra- conditions, and this result in case M is of finite length, improves a theorem of \textit{S. O. Smalø} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 81, 164-166 (1981; Zbl 0456.16030)]. There is proved an infinite version of the Jordan-Hölder theorem which gives the possibility to make the following definitions. Let \(\{M_ i\}_{i\leq a}\) be an ascending composition series of the semi-artinian R-module \(M_ R.\) 1) The cardinal number \(\ell(M_ R)=| a|\) is called the length of \(M_ R.\) 2) Let \(A_ R\) be a simple module. Then we call the cardinal number \(\ell_ A(M_ R)=| \{i<a| \quad M_{i+1}/M_ i\cong A_ R\}|\) the A-length of \(M_ R.\) 3) \(s(M_ R)=\sup \{\ell_ A(M_ R)|\) A is contained in the socle of \(M_ R\}.\) There is the following useful condition (*) for a bimodule \({}_ SX_ R:\) (*) For each \(x\in X\) there is a finite subset T(X) of the Jacobson radical rad(S) of S, such that \[ \cap_{s\in rad(S)}r_{xR}(s)=\cap_{s\in T(X)}r_{xR}(s), \] where \(r_{xR}(s)\) is the right annihilator of s in xR. Main theorem of this paper is the following Theorem 1. Let \(M_ R\) be a semi-artinian R-module and let \(S=End(M_ R)\) be a right perfect ring. Suppose also that for each \({}_ SU_ R\), \({}_ SM_ R\) M/U satisfies condition (*). Then for the descending Loewy length \(\mu\) of \(S_ S\) the estimate \(| \mu | \leq s(M_ R)\) holds. There are given also some classes of modules, for which the main theorem 1 is useful. The following theorem is a modification of a result of the author [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 86, 209-210 (1982; Zbl 0502.16025)] and gives as corollary the above noted theorem of Smalø: Theorem 2. Let \(M_ R\) be artinian and \(s(M_ R)\) be finite. Then \(S=End(M_ R)\) is a semiprimary ring and the index of nilpotence of rad(S) is less than or equal to \(s(M_ R)\). Without condition (*) \(\mu\) can only be roughly estimated as in theorem 1. Indeed, there is proved Theorem 3. Let \(M_ R\) be semi-artinian and let \(S=End(M_ R)\) be a right perfect ring. Then for the descending Loewy length of \(S_ S | \mu | \leq \ell(M_ R)\) holds.