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On Rings whose Simple Modules are Flat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Yasuyuki Hirano*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Okayama University Okayama 700 Japan
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Abstract

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A ring R is called a right SF-ring if all of its simple right R-modules are flat. It is well known that a von Neumann regular ring is a right SF-ring. In this paper we study conditions under which the converse holds.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1994

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