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Hopfian and co-Hopfian modules over Artinian rings

Commutative Algebra 2022-03-08 v2

Abstract

An RR-module MM is Hopfian (co-Hopfian) if any epic (monic) endomorphism of MM is an automorphism. If RR is commutative Noetherian, we characterize the co-Hopfian injective RR-modules, and the Hopfian injectives in the case that RR is also reduced. For a commutative Artinian principal ideal ring, we show that MM is Hopfian (co-Hopfian) if and only if MM is finitely generated if and only if its injective envelope E(M)E(M) is Hopfian (co-Hopfian) if and only if E(M)E(M) is finitely generated. We identify the obstacle to generalizing this result to arbitrary Artinian principal ideal rings.

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@article{arxiv.2112.01596,
  title  = {Hopfian and co-Hopfian modules over Artinian rings},
  author = {F. C. Leary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.01596},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages