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Pure Simple and Indecomposable Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David J. Fieldhouse*
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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P. M. Cohn [7] calls a submodule P of the left A-module M pure iff 0 → EPEM is exact for all right modules E. This concept has been studied in [11] and [12]. We will call a non-zero module pure simple iff its only pure submodules are 0 and itself, and the ring A left pure simple iff it is pure simple as a left A-module. We relate these concepts to the PP and PF rings of Hattori [13], and give several new characterizations of these rings. In order to establish these, we use the following known result: the Jacobson radical of any module is the sum of all its small submodules.

Parts of this paper are contained in the author's doctoral thesis [10] at McGill University.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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