Abstract
A module M is called extending if, for any submodule X of M, there exists a direct summand of M which contains X as an essential submodule, that is, for any submodule X of M, there exists a closure of X in M which is a direct summand of M. Dually, a module M is said to be lifting if, for any submodule X of M, there exists a direct summand of M which is a co-essential submodule of X, that is, for any submodule X of M, there exists a co-closure of X in M which is a direct summand of M.
Okado (Citation1984) has studied the decomposition of extending modules over right noetherian rings. He obtained the following: A ring R is right noetherian if and only if every extending R-module can be expressed as a direct sum of indecomposable (uniform) modules.
In this article, we show that every (finitely generated) lifting module over a right perfect (semiperfect) ring can be expressed as a direct sum of indecomposable modules. And we consider some application of this result.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are thankful to the referee, as well as K. Oshiro for their useful comments.
Notes
Communicated by R. Wisbauer.