we show that every semi-artinian module which is contained in a direct sum of finitely presented modules in $si[m]$, is weakly co-semisimple if and only if it is regular in $si[m]$. as a consequence, we observe that every semi-artinian ring is regular in the sense of von neumann if and only if its simple modules are $fp$-injective.

Let G be a multiplicative group, K a commutative ring with unit, and K(G) the group ring of G with respect to K. We say that K(G) is regular if given an x in K(G), there is a y in K(G) such that xyx = x. Using a homological characterization of regular rings which was found independently by M. Harada [2, Theorem 5] and the author, we prove that if G is locally finite, then K(G) is regular if and...

The object of this paper is to study the relationship between certain projective modules and their endomorphism rings. Specifically, the basic problem is to describe the projective modules whose endomorphism rings are (von Neumann) regular, local semiperfect, or left perfect. Call a projective module regular if every cyclic submodule is a direct summand. Thus a ring is a regular module if it is...

In 1954 Zelinsky [16] proved that every element in the ring of linear transformations of a vector space V over a division ring D is a sum of two units unless dim V = 1 and D = Z2. Because EndD(V ) is a (von-Neumann) regular ring, Zelinsky’s result generated quite a bit of interest in regular rings that have the property that every element is a sum of (two) units. Clearly, a ring R, having Z2 as...

Rings form a bicategory [Rings], with classes of bimodules as horizontal arrows, and bimodule maps as vertical arrows. The notion of Morita equivalence for rings can be translated in terms of bicategories in the following way. Two rings are Morita equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic objects in the bicategory. We repeat this construction for von Neumann algebras. Von Neumann algebras f...