Nakayama (Ann. of Math. 42, 1941) showed that over an artinian serial ring every module is a direct sum of uniserial modules. Hence artinian serial rings have the property that each right (left) ideal is a finite direct sum of quasi-injective right (left) ideals. A ring with the property that each right (left) ideal is a finite direct sum of quasi-injective right (left) ideals will be called a ...

Finite Frobenius rings have been characterized as precisely those finite rings satisfying the MacWilliams extension property, by work of Wood. In the present note we offer a generalization of this remarkable result to the realm of Artinian rings. Namely, we prove that a left Artinian ring has the left MacWilliams property if and only if it is left pseudo-injective and its finitary left socle em...

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...

For an arbitrary left Artinian ring R, explicit descriptions are given of all the left denominator sets S of R and left localizations SR of R. It is proved that, up to R-isomorphism, there are only finitely many left localizations and each of them is an idempotent localization, i.e. SR ≃ S e R and ass(S) = ass(Se) where Se = {1, e} is a left denominator set of R and e is an idempotent. Moreover...

An easy consequence of this is that a left Noetherian (respectively left Artinian) ring which is finitely generated over its center is right Noetherian (respectively right Artinian). Theorem 1 follows easily from Theorem 2, which gives a partial converse to the following standard fact: IfR C S are rings, and ifQ is an injective R-module, then Hom~(S, Q) is an injective S-module (this follows, f...

For an arbitrary ring R, the largest strong left quotient ring Ql (R) of R and the strong left localization radical lR are introduced and their properties are studied in detail. In particular, it is proved that Ql (Q s l (R)) ≃ Q s l (R), l s R/ls R = 0 and a criterion is given for the ring Ql (R) to be a semisimple ring. There is a canonical homomorphism from the classical left quotient ring Q...