DIRECT SUMS OF INFINITELY MANY KERNELS

Abstract Let 𝒦 be the class of all right R-modules that are kernels of nonzero homomorphisms φ:E1→E2 for some pair of indecomposable injective right R-modules E1,E2. In a previous paper, we completely characterized when two direct sums A1⊕⋯⊕An and B1⊕⋯⊕Bm of finitely many modules Ai and Bj in 𝒦 are isomorphic. Here we consider the case in which there are arbitrarily, possibly infinitely, many Ai and Bj in 𝒦. In both the finite and the infinite case, the behaviour is very similar to that which occurs if we substitute the class 𝒦 with the class 𝒰 of all uniserial right R-modules (a module is uniserial when its lattice of submodules is linearly ordered).

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