Almost prime and weakly prime submodules

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be an arbitrary ring and [Formula: see text] be a right [Formula: see text]-module. A proper submodule [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is called almost prime (respectively, weakly prime) if for each submodule [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] and each ideal [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] (respectively, [Formula: see text]), then [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. We study these notions which are new generalizations of the prime submodules over noncommutative rings and we obtain some related results. We show that these two concepts in some classes of modules coincide. Moreover, we investigate the conditions that [Formula: see text] is almost prime, where [Formula: see text] is a submodule of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is an ideal of [Formula: see text]. Also, the almost prime radical of modules will be introduced and we extend some known results.