Gabriel [9] called a localizing subcategory stable if it is closed under injective envelopes. (In this case, the associated torsion radical or torsion theory is also said to be stable.) He showed that over a commutative Noetherian ring R every localizing subcategory of R-Mod is stable. He noted the connections between stability and the Artin-Rees property for ideals, and considered the stability of the localizing subcategory generated by the class of simple modules. Papp [18] studied Noetherian rings for which every localizing subcategory is stable, and Louden [16] utilized stable torsion radicals to define a sheaf over the spectrum of an FBN ring. This paper gives a characterization of stable torsion radicals over left FBN rings. The equivalent conditions stated in Theorem 1.2 exhibit the connections with the Artin-Rees property and with the notion of ideal invariance introduced by Robson [19]. Over an FBN ring, there is a natural correspondence between torsion radicals in R-Mod and those in Mod-R. In Theorem 1.6 it is shown that corresponding torsion radicals are both stable if and only if they are both ideal invariant, and that such torsion radicals correspond to the biradicals defined by Jategaonkar [12], and thus to the link-closed hereditary sets of prime ideals in the sense of Miiller [17]. Finally, it is shown that every torsion radical over an FBN ring is stable if and only if every prime ideal is localizable. In the second section of the paper, applications are given to the study of certain specific torsion radicals. For a left FBN ring, necessary and sufficient conditions are given under which any finitely generated essential extension of a module of Krull dimension at most a again has Krull dimension at most a. These conditions can be checked easily for an FBN ring or for a left Noetherian ring integral over its center, yielding a unified approach to certain results of Jategaonkar [13] and Chamarie and Hudry [5]. Finally, the results in the first section are applied to determine several conditions under which finitely generated essential extensions of Artinian modules are again Artinian, extending a result of Ginn and Moss [lo].
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