Bulletin of the
Korean Mathematical Society BKMS

It is shown that every nilpotent-invariant module can be decomposed into a direct sum of a quasi-injective module and a square-free module that are relatively injective and orthogonal. This paper is also concerned with rings satisfying every cyclic right $R$-module is nilpotent-invariant. We prove that $R\cong R_1\times R_2$, where $R_1, R_2$ are rings which satisfy $R_1$ is a semi-simple Artinian ring and $R_2$ is square-free as a right $R_2$-module and all idempotents of $R_2$ is central. The paper concludes with a structure theorem for cyclic nilpotent-invariant right $R$-modules. Such a module is shown to have isomorphic simple modules $eR$ and $fR$, where $e,f$ are orthogonal primitive idempotents such that $eRf\ne 0$.

Keywords: Nilpotent-invariant module, automorphism-invariant module, square-free module, finite exchange property, full exchange property

MSC numbers: Primary 16D40, 16E50, 16D90