In this paper we study almost uniserial rings and modules. An R−module M is called almost uniserial if any two nonisomorphic submodules are linearly ordered by inclusion. A ring R is an almost left uniserial ring if R_R is almost uniserial. We give some necessary and sufficient condition for an Artinian ring to be almost left uniserial.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a criterion of an occurrence of uncountably generated uniserial modules over chain rings. As we show it suffices to investigate two extreme cases, nearly simple chain rings, i.e. chain rings containing only three twosided ideals, and chain rings with “many” two-sided ideals. We prove that there exists an ω1-generated uniserial module over every non-artini...

A serial ring (generalized uniserial in the terminology of Nakayama) is one whose left and right free modules are direct sums of modules with unique finite composition series (uniserial modules.) This paper presents a module-theoretic discussion of the structure of serial rings, and some onesided characterizations of certain kinds of serial rings. As an application of the structure theory, an e...

A module is called uniseriat if it has a unique composition series of finite length. A ring (always with 1) is called serial if its right and left free modules are direct sums of uniserial modules. Nakayama, who called these rings generalized uniserial rings, proved [21, Theorem 171 that every finitely generated module over a serial ring is a direct sum of uniserial modules. In section one we g...

1. Let R be a ring with unity. An R-module M is said to be balanced or to have the double centralizer property, if the natural homomorphism from R to the double centralizer of M is surjective. If all left and right K-modules are balanced, R is called balanced. It is well known that every artinian uniserial ring is balanced. In [5], J. P. Jans conjectured that those were the only (artinian) bala...