A Note on Semiprime Rings with Torsionless Injective Envelope

Abstract

Satyanarayana establishes in [6] that a semiprime right selfinjective ring with ACC on annihilator right ideals is semisimple Artinian, thereby extending a similar result of Koh [5] for prime rings. A theorem of Faith [3, Theorem 5.2], shows that the annihilator chain condition on either side implies that a right selfinjective semiprime ring is semisimple Artinian. Noting that any selfinjective ring has torsionless injective envelope we consider the possibility of replacing selfinjectivity by torsionless together with an annihilator condition.