Left serial rings over which every right module with homogeneous top is a direct sum of hollow modules

Abstract

Let R be a left and right artinian ring with identity, and / the Jacobson radical of R. In [4], M. Harada has considered a left serial ring R satisfying a condition (*, 2) that every maximal submodule of a direct sum of any two hollow modules is also a direct sum of hollow modules, and characterized such a ring by the structure of eR for each primitive idempotent e. Further it has been shown that the condition (*, 2) is equivalent to saying that every factor module of ejQ)eR is a direct sum of hollow modules for every primitive idempotent e. Modifying this, we here consider the following condition on a projective indecomposable right module eR over a ring R.