Rings of endomorphisms and distributivity

Bezout rings distributive modules Jacobson radical left nil ideals nil subrings nilpotent elements prime radical quasi-injective modules ring of endomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure and classification for modules, bimodules and ideals (except as in 16Gxx), direct sum decomposition and cancellation in associative algebras) (16D70) Nil and nilpotent radicals, sets, ideals, associative rings (16N40) Endomorphism rings; matrix rings (16S50)

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The ring of endomorphisms \(R= \text{End}(M_A)\) of a distributive module \(M_A\) is studied. If \(T\) is the set of all nilpotent elements of \(R\), then \(T\) is a nil-subring of \(R\) and \(T\subseteq F(M)\cap G(M)\cap J(R)\), where \(F(M)= \{f\in R\mid \text{Im } f\) is small in \(M_A\}\), \(G(M)= \{f\in R\mid \text{Ker } f\) is essential in \(M_A\}\), and \(J(R)\) is the Jacobson radical of \(R\). Moreover, the rings \(R/F(M)\), \(R/G(M)\) and \(R/(F(M)\cap G(M))\) are reduced (without nonzero nilpotent elements). In this case, the prime radical of \(R\) is the greatest right nil-ideal and greatest left nil-ideal of \(R\). Some characterizations of a distributive module \(M_A\) are obtained with the help of the ring \(R= \text{End}(M_A)\). For example, \(M_A\) is distributive if the left \(R\)-module \(\text{Hom}_A(M, E)\) is distributive for every quasi-injective module \(E_A\) (it is sufficient to consider the minimal injective cogenerating module \(E_A\) of \(\text{Mod-}A\)). If \(M_A\) is a distributive quasi-injective module, then \(R= \text{End}(M_A)\) is a left distributive Bezout ring and the ring \(R/J(R)\) is strictly regular.

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