The object of the paper is to extend part of the theory of-orderings on a skewweld with involution to a general ring with involution. The valuation associated to a-ordering is examined. Every-ordering is shown to extend.-orderings are shown to form a space of signs as deened by Brr ocker and Marshall. In case the involution is the identity, the ring under consideration is commutative and the-or...

The object of this paper is to study the relationship between certain projective modules and their endomorphism rings. Specifically, the basic problem is to describe the projective modules whose endomorphism rings are (von Neumann) regular, local semiperfect, or left perfect. Call a projective module regular if every cyclic submodule is a direct summand. Thus a ring is a regular module if it is...