scientific article; zbMATH DE number 124321
abelian categorybounded decomposition typedirect decompositionsdualityembeddingfinite lengthfinite uniform rankfinitely generated projective modulesindecomposable modulesleft hereditary ringrank functionskew fieldsummandstorsion modules
Free, projective, and flat modules and ideals in associative algebras (16D40) Structure and classification for modules, bimodules and ideals (except as in 16Gxx), direct sum decomposition and cancellation in associative algebras) (16D70) Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Homological dimension in associative algebras (16E10) Semihereditary and hereditary rings, free ideal rings, Sylvester rings, etc. (16E60) Smash products of general Hopf actions (16S40)
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00066.] A ring \(R\) is said to be of bounded decomposition type (BDT) if, for each \(n \geq 1\), there is an integer \(r(n)\) such that \(R^ n\) admits no decomposition into more than \(r(n)\) summands. It is proved that a left hereditary ring of finite uniform rank has BDT and for such a ring finitely generated projective modules can be decomposed into indecomposable modules and in any such two direct decompositions the number of terms is the same, and with a suitable numbering corresponding terms are isomorphic. In the second part of the paper a hereditary ring with an embedding in a skew field is considered. A rank function associated to the embedding is defined. Next torsion modules with respect to this rank function are defined and it is shown that the category of left torsion modules forms an abelian category in which every object has finite length and \(\text{Ext}^ 1_ R(M,R)\) establishes a duality between the category of left and right torsion modules.
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