Many known results on finite von Neumann algebras are generalized, by purely algebraic proofs, to a certain class C of finite Baer *-rings. The results in this paper can also be viewed as a study of the properties of Baer *-rings in the class C. First, we show that a finitely generated module over a ring from the class C splits as a direct sum of a finitely generated projective module and a cer...

in this article‎, ‎we have characterized ideals in $c(x)$ in which‎ ‎every ideal is also an ideal (a $z$-ideal) of $c(x)$‎. ‎motivated by‎ ‎this characterization‎, ‎we observe that $c_infty(x)$ is a regular‎ ‎ring if and only if every open locally compact $sigma$-compact‎ ‎subset of $x$ is finite‎. ‎concerning prime ideals‎, ‎it is shown that‎ ‎the sum of every two prime (semiprime) ideals of e...

It is proven that each indecomposable injective module over a valuation domain R is polyserial if and only if each maximal immediate extension R̂ of R is of finite rank over the completion R̃ of R in the R-topology. In this case, for each indecomposable injective module E, the following invariants are finite and equal: its Malcev rank, its Fleischer rank and its dual Goldie dimension. Similar res...