International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 26 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 161-166
doi:10.1155/S0161171201004604

Lattice modules having small cofinite irreducibles

E. W. Johnson,1 Johnny A. Johnson,2 and Monty B. Taylor3

1Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52240, IA, USA
2Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston 77204, TX, USA
3Department of Mathematics, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg 78539, TX, USA

Received 16 February 2000

Copyright © 2001 E. W. Johnson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We introduce the concept of small cofinite irreducibles in Noetherian lattice modules and obtain several characterizations of this property.