When are Baer modules extending?

The well-known notion of an extending module is closely linked to that of a Baer module. A right R -module M is called extending if every submodule of M is essential in a direct summand. On the other hand, a right R -module M is called Baer if for all N ≤ M , l S (N) ≤ ⊕ S S where S = End R (M). In 2004, Rizvi and Roman generalized a result of [A. W. Chatters and S. M. Khuri, Endomorphism rings of modules over nonsingular CS rings, J. London Math. Soc.  21(2) (1980) 434–444.] in terms of modules and showed the connections between Baer and extending modules via the result: "a module M is -nonsingular extending if and only if M is -cononsingular Baer". M R is called -nonsingular if ∀ φ ∈ S such that Ker φ ≤ e M , φ = 0. Moreover, M R is called -cononsingular if for any N ≤ M with φ N ≠ 0 for all 0 ≠ φ ∈ S , implies N ≤ e M. In view of this result, every Baer module which happens to be -cononsingular will automatically become an extending module. In this paper, our main focus is the study of -cononsingularity of modules. Our investigations are also motivated by the fact that very little is known about the notion of -cononsingularity while sufficient knowledge exists about the other three remaining notions in the preceding result. Moreover, we introduce the notion of special extending (or sp-extending, for short) of a module and show that the class of -cononsingular modules properly contains the class of extending modules and the class of special extending modules. Among other results, we obtain a new analogous version for the Rizvi–Roman's result which illustrates the close connections between Baer and extending modules. Examples illustrating the notions and delimiting our results are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]