Krull Dimension and Gabriel Dimension of Rings and Modules

Let R be an associative ring with identity, and let denote the category of unital left R-modules. The Walkers [6] raised the question of characterizing the maximal torsion radicals of , and showed that if R is commutative and Noetherian, then there is a one-to-one correspondence between maximal torsion radicals and minimal prime ideals of R [6, Theorem 1.29]. Popescu announced [5, Theorem 2.5] that the result remains valid for commutative rings with Gabriel dimension (in the terminology of [2]). Theorem 4.6 below shows that the result holds for rings (not necessarily commutative) with Krull dimension on either the left or right, extending the previous theorem for right Noetherian rings which appeared in [1].

ABSTRACTWe extend the definition of a piecewise Noetherian ring to the noncommutative case, and investigate various properties of such rings. In particular, we show that a ring with Krull dimension is piecewise Noetherian. Certain fully bounded piecewise Noetherian rings have Gabriel dimension and exhibit the Gabriel correspondence between prime ideals and indecomposable injective modules.

Krull Dimension and Gabriel Dimension of Idealizers of Semimaximal Left Ideals

Let M be a right ideal of the ring T with identity. A unital subring R of T which contains M as a two-sided ideal is called a subidealizer ; the largest such subring is the idealizer I (M) of M in T. M is said to be generative if TM = T. In this case M is idempotent, and it follows from the dual basis lemma that T is finitely generated projective as a right R-module (see [7, Lemma 2.1]); we make frequent use of these two facts in this paper.