A note on p.q.-Baer modules

Generalized Baer rings

In [15], Kaplansky introduced Baer rings as rings in which every right (left) annihilator ideal is generated by an idempotent. According to Clark [9], a ring R is called quasi-Baer if the right annihilator of every right ideal is generated (as a right ideal) by an idempotent. Further works on quasi-Baer rings appear in [4, 6, 17]. Recently, Birkenmeier et al. [8] called a ring R to be a right (...

On quasi-baer modules

Let $R$ be a ring, $sigma$ be an endomorphism of $R$ and $M_R$ be a $sigma$-rigid module. A module $M_R$ is called quasi-Baer if the right annihilator of a principal submodule of $R$ is generated by an idempotent. It is shown that an $R$-module $M_R$ is a quasi-Baer module if and only if $M[[x]]$ is a quasi-Baer module over the skew power series ring $R[[x,sigma]]$.

Extensions of Baer and quasi-Baer modules

On Rickart modules

Let $R$ be an arbitrary ring with identity and $M$ a right $R$-module with $S=$ End$_R(M)$. The module $M$ is called {it Rickart} if for any $fin S$, $r_M(f)=Se$ for some $e^2=ein S$. We prove that some results of principally projective rings and Baer modules can be extended to Rickart modules for this general settings.

Self-cogenerator modules and their applications

Let $R$ be a ring and $M$ be a right $R$-module. In this paper, we give some properties of self-cogeneratormodules. If $M$ is self-cogenerator and $S = End_{R}(M)$ is a cononsingular ring, then $M$ is a$mathcal{K}$-module. It is shown that every self-cogenerator Baer is dual Baer.