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On a Class of Perfect Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Vlastimil Dlab
Vlastimil Dlab*
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
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In [3], the perfect rings of Bass [1] were characterized in terms of torsions in the following way:

A ring R is right perfect if and only if every (hereditary) torsion in the categoryMod Rof all left R-modules is fundamental (i.e. generated by some minimal torsions) and closed under taking direct products; as a consequence, the number of all torsions inMod Ris finite and equal to 2n for a natural n.

Here, we present a simple description of those rings R which allow only two (trivial) torsions, viz. 0 and Mod R (and thus, are right perfect by [3]). Finite direct sums of these rings represent a natural generalization of completely reducible (i.e. artinian semisimple) rings (cf. Theorem 2) and we shall call them for that matter π-reducible rings. They can also be characterized in terms of their idempotent two-sided ideals.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1970 , pp. 822 - 826
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

References

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