ABSTRACT

Chapter 16 Every Endomorphism of a Local Warfield Module is the Sum of Two Automorphisms Paul Hill Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101, USA paul.hill@wku.edu

Charles Megibben Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA megibben@math.vanderbilt.edu

William Ullery Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA ullery@math.auburn.edu

16.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 16.2 The Key Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 16.3 Proof of the Main Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

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Abstract In this paper, we prove the title statement, except of course for p = 2 (where it is false); all modules here are over the ring of integers localized at a prime p. The same result was proved by R. Go¨bel and A. Opdenho¨vel for modules having finite torsion-free rank.