Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2008
In a recent paper by Wang and Ding, it was stated that any ring which is generalized supplemented as a left module over itself is semiperfect. The purpose of this note is to show that Wang and Ding’s claim is not true and that the class of generalized supplemented rings lies properly between the classes of semilocal and semiperfect rings. Moreover, we propose a corrected version of the theorem by introducing a wider notion of ‘local’ for submodules.
The first author thanks the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) for financial support. The second author was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto (CMUP).