Virtually semisimple modules and a generalization of the Wedderburn-Artin theorem

Principal ideal rings (13F10) Simple and semisimple modules, primitive rings and ideals in associative algebras (16D60) Structure and classification for modules, bimodules and ideals (except as in 16Gxx), direct sum decomposition and cancellation in associative algebras) (16D70) Endomorphism rings; matrix rings (16S50)

Abstract: By any measure, semisimple modules form one of the most important classes of modules and play a distinguished role in the module theory and its applications. One of the most fundamental results in this area is the Wedderburn-Artin theorem. In this paper, we establish natural generalizations of semisimple modules and give a generalization of the Wedderburn-Artin theorem. We study modules in which every submodule is isomorphic to a direct summand and name them {it virtually semisimple modules}. A module

_{R} M

is called {it completely virtually semisimple} if each submodules of

M

is a virtually semisimple module. A ring

R

is then called {it left} ({it completely}) {it virtually semisimple} if

_{R} R

is a left (compleatly) virtually semisimple

R

-module. Among other things, we give several characterizations of left (completely) virtually semisimple rings. For instance, it is shown that a ring

R

is left completely virtually semisimple if and only if

R c o n g p r o d_{i = 1}^{k} M_{n_{i}} (D_{i})

where

k, n_{1}, ..., n_{k} i n B b b N

and each

D_{i}

is a principal left ideal domain. Moreover, the integers

k, n_{1}, ..., n_{k}

and the principal left ideal domains

D_{1}, ..., D_{k}

are uniquely determined (up to isomorphism) by

R

.

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