We show that cohopfian modules with finite exchange have countable exchange. In particular, a module whose endomorphism ring is Dedekind-finite and π-regular has the countable exchange property. We also show that a module whose en-domorphism ring is Dedekind-finite and regular has full exchange. Finally, working modulo the Jacobson radical, we prove that any module with the (C 2) property and a...

Given a presentation of a finitely presented group, there is a natural way to represent the group as the fundamental group of a 2-complex. The first part of this paper demonstrates one possible way to represent a finitely presented algebra S in a similarly compact form. From a presentation of the algebra, we construct a quiver with relations whose path algebra is finite dimensional. When we adj...

We construct a unital pre-C*-algebra A0 which is stably finite, in the sense that every left invertible square matrix over A0 is right invertible, while the C*-completion of A0 contains a non-unitary isometry, and so it is infinite. To appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

The values of the normalized homogeneous weight are determined for arbitrary finite Frobenius rings and expressed in a form that is independent from a generating character and the Möbius function on the ring. The weight naturally induces a partition of the ring, which is invariant under left or right multiplication by units. It is shown that the character-theoretic left-sided dual of this parti...

We observe that the class of left and right artinian left and right morphic rings agrees with the class of artinian principal ideal rings. For R an artinian principal ideal ring and G a group, we characterize when RG is a principal ideal ring; for finite groups G, this characterizes when RG is a left and right morphic ring. This extends work of Passman, Sehgal and Fisher in the case when R is a...

Let R be a right GF -closed ring with finite left and right Gorenstein global dimension. We prove that if I is an ideal of R such that R/I is a semi-simple ring, then the Gorenstein flat dimension of R/I as a right R-module and the Gorenstein injective dimension of R/I as a left R-module are identical. In particular, we show that for a simple module S over a commutative Gorenstein ring R, the G...

Let $ m , n in mathbb{N}$, $D$ be a division ring, and $M_{m times n}(D)$ denote the bimodule of all $m times n$ matrices with entries from $D$. First, we characterize one-sided submodules of $M_{m times n}(D)$ in terms of left row reduced echelon or right column reduced echelon matrices with entries from $D$. Next, we introduce the notion of a nest module of matrices with entries from $D$. We ...

A ring is called a Gelfand ring (pm ring ) if each prime ideal is contained in a unique maximal ideal. For a Gelfand ring R with Jacobson radical zero, we show that the following are equivalent: (1) R is Artinian; (2) R is Noetherian; (3) R has a finite Goldie dimension; (4) Every maximal ideal is generated by an idempotent; (5) Max (R) is finite. We also give the following resu1ts:an ideal...