Direct sums of representations as modules over their endomorphism rings

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of the endo-structure of infinite direct sums

of indecomposable modules

M_{i}

over a ring

R

. It is centered on the following question: If

, how much pressure, in terms of the

S

-structure of

, is required to force the

M_{i}

into finitely many isomorphism classes? In case the

M_{i}

are endofinite (i.e., of finite length over their endomorphism rings), the number of isomorphism classes among the

M_{i}

is finite if and only if

is endo-noetherian and the

M_{i}

form a right

T

-nilpotent class. This is a corollary of a more general theorem in the paper which features the weaker conditions of (right or left) semi-

T

-nilpotence as well as the endosocle of a module. This result is sharpened in the case of Artin algebras, by showing that then, if the

M_{i}

are finitely generated, the direct sum

is endo-Artinian if and only if it is

S i g m a

-algebraically compact.

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