In this paper we study almost uniserial rings and modules. An R−module M is called almost uniserial if any two nonisomorphic submodules are linearly ordered by inclusion. A ring R is an almost left uniserial ring if R_R is almost uniserial. We give some necessary and sufficient condition for an Artinian ring to be almost left uniserial.

The concepts of Boolean metric space and convex combination are used to characterize polynomial maps An −→ Am in a class of commutative Von Neumann regular rings including p-rings, that we have called CFG-rings. In those rings, the study of the category of algebraic varieties (i.e. sets of solutions to a finite number of polynomial equations with polynomial maps as morphisms) is equivalent to t...

Let F∗ n be the set of Boolean functions depending on all n variables. We prove that for any f ∈ F∗ n, f |xi=0 or f |xi=1 depends on the remaining n − 1 variables, for some variable xi. This existent result suggests a possible way to deal with general Boolean functions via its subfunctions of some restrictions. As an application, we consider the degree lower bound of representing polynomials ov...

We generalize two major ways of obtaining derived equivalences, the tilting process by Happel, Reiten and Smalø and Happel’s Tilting Theorem, to the setting of finitely presented modules over right coherent rings. Moreover, we extend the characterization of quasi–tilted artin algebras as the almost hereditary ones to all right noetherian rings. We also give a streamlined and general presentatio...