Self-Free Modules and E-Rings

DOI10.1081/AGB-120017772MaRDI QIDQ4802444zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Manfred Dugas, Shalom Feigelstock

Publication date 14 April 2003

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1081/AGB-120017772

zbMATH Keywords

additive groups of torsion-free E-ringsmodule homomorphismsself-free modulesslender modulesstrongly indecomposable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Automorphisms and endomorphisms (16W20) Torsion-free groups, finite rank (20K15) Torsion-free groups, infinite rank (20K20) Automorphisms, homomorphisms, endomorphisms, etc. for abelian groups (20K30)

Review text

Let \(S\) be a commutative ring with identity and let \(M\) be a unital \(S\)-module. Then \(M\) is said to be self-free with basis \(X\) if \(X\) is a subset of \(M\) such that every function \(f\colon X\to M\) extends to a unique \(S\)-module homomorphism \(\varphi\colon M\to M\). This property was first considered by \textit{P. Bankston} and \textit{R. Schutt} under the name ``minimally \(|X|\)-free [Can. J. Math. 37, 963-978 (1985; Zbl 0563.08009)]. Self-free modules with basis a singleton set are E-modules. If \(M\) is self-free with basis \(X\) and \(M\) is slender, then \(M\) is a direct sum of \(|X|\) many copies of some fixed E-module \(H\). The authors also investigate additive groups of torsion-free rings without zero divisors. Using a result of \textit{D. M. Arnold} [Finite rank torsion-free Abelian groups and rings, Lect. Notes Math. 931, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1982; Zbl 0493.20034)], they prove that a finite rank torsion-free ring without zero divisors is an E-ring iff its additive group is strongly indecomposable. An example of an indecomposable but not strongly indecomposable torsion-free E-ring of finite rank is provided. Some criteria for when an Abelian group is the additive group of an E-ring are also given.

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• Torsion-free E-modules
• Localizations of torsion-free Abelian groups.
• Chains of Group Localizations
• Localizations of tensor products.
• Idempotent functors and localizations in categories of modules and Abelian groups.

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