• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.619-637
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• 2004

In this paper, a left module over an associative ring with identity is defined to be openly semiprimitive (strongly semiprimitive, respectively) by the zero intersection of all maximal open fully invariant submodules (all maximal open submodules which are fully invariant, respectively) of it. For any projective module, the openly semiprimitivity of the projective module is an equivalent condition of the semiprimitivity of endomorphism ring of the projective module and the strongly semiprimitivity of the projective module is an equivalent condition of the endomorphism ring of the projective module being a sub direct product of a set of subdivisions of division rings.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.617-629
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• 2008

In this paper, the authors have found an equivalent condition of the endomorphism ring End(M) of a projective module M being von Neumann regular(Theorem 1.14) and found an equivalent condition of any associative ring R being von Neumann regular (Theorem 1.13).