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Trace ideals and uniserial modules

Rings and Algebras 2026-05-13 v1

Abstract

We thoroughly investigate the trace ideals of projective modules over the endomorphism ring of a uniserial module. After the work of Dubrovin and Puninski, it is known that this class of rings provides examples of trace ideals of projective right modules that are not trace ideals of projective left modules. In this paper we further investigate when this happens, giving an intrinsic description of such trace ideals and their properties. We also use the theory associated to lifting projective modules modulo a trace ideal to give an alternative approach to Puninski's construction of a direct summand of a serial module that is not serial.

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@article{arxiv.2605.12459,
  title  = {Trace ideals and uniserial modules},
  author = {Dolors Herbera and Pavel Pří hoda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12459},
  year   = {2026}
}

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27 pages. Comments and suggestions are welcome!