Let X be a class or R-modules containing 0 and closed under isomorphic images. With any such X we associate three classes ΓX, FX and ΔX. The study of some of the closure properties of these classes allows us to obtain characterization of Artinian modules dualizing results of Chatters. The theory of Dual Glodie dimension as developed by the author in some of his earlier work plays a crucial role in the present paper.
Characterizations of quasi-continuous modules and continuous modules are given. A non-trivial generalization of injectivity (distinct from -injectivity) is considered.
A new characteristic property of von Neumann regular rings is proposed in terms of annihilators of elements. An ELT fully idempotent ring is a regular ring whose simple left (or right) modules are either injective or projective. Artinian rings are characterized in terms of Noetherian rings. Strongly regular rings and rings whose two-sided ideals are generated by central idempotents are characterized in terms of special annihilators. Quasi-Frobeniusean rings are characterized in terms of -injectivity....
Right ue-rings (rings with the property of the title, i.e., with the maximality of the right socle) are investigated. It is shown that a semiprime ring R is a right ue-ring if and only if R is a regular V-ring with the socle being a maximal right ideal, and if and only if the intrinsic topology of R is non-discrete Hausdorff and dense proper right ideals are semisimple. It is proved that if R is a right self-injective right ue-ring (local right ue-ring), then R is never semiprime and is Artin semisimple...