Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
It is well-known that quasi-Frobenius rings are characterized by the property that all propective right modules are injective, as well as by the property that all injective right modules are projective. Similarly, either the property that every quasi-injective or that every quasi-injective is quasi-projective characterizes uniserial rings. Oshiro has given similar characterizations for generalized uniserial rings. The purpose of this paper is to characterize rings for which continuous right modules are discrete. We show that these rings are precisely the uniserial rings. The property that every discrete module is continuous is also investigated.