Nonsingular rings with finite type dimension

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Two right modules over a ring \(R\) are said to be orthogonal if they do not have any non-zero isomorphic submodules. An atomic module is a non-zero module whose non-zero submodules are pairwise non-orthogonal. A module \(M\) is said to have finite type dimension \(n\) for some positive integer \(n\) if it has an essential submodule which is the direct sum of \(n\) pairwise orthogonal atomic submodules; if no such \(n\) exists, the type dimension is defined to be infinity. For instance if \(M\) is semi-simple then it has type dimension \(n\) if and only if \(M\) is a direct sum of simple modules from \(n\) isomorphism classes. The author starts by proving some basic results connecting the type dimension of a module with that of submodules, factor modules, etc. In Section 2, numerous necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a right non-singular ring \(R\) to have finite type dimension as a right \(R\)-module; two of these conditions are ``the maximal right quotient ring of \(R\) is a finite direct sum of indecomposable right self-injective regular rings and ``every non-singular injective right \(R\)-module is a direct sum of atomic submodules. It is shown in Section 3 that if \(R\) is right non-singular then every non-zero right ideal of \(R\) contains an atomic right ideal if and only if the maximal right quotient ring of \(R\) is a direct product of indecomposable right self-injective regular rings. The final section contains some formulae for the type dimension of some basic ring-theory constructions such as polynomial rings and formal triangular matrix rings. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0878.00051].











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