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Flat submodules of free modules over commutative Bezout rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

K. Samei
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran, e-mail: [email protected], Institute for studies in Theoretical, Physics and Mathematics(IPM), Tehran, Iran.
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A ring is called Bezout if every finitely generated ideal is principal. We show that every ideal of a commutative Bezout ring R is flat if and only if every submodule of a free R-module is flat. Using this theorem we obtain Neville's theorem.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2005

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