On radical square zero rings

Abstract

Let A be a connected left artinian ring with radical square zero and with n simple modules. If A is not self-injective, then we show that any module M with Ext^i(M,A) = 0 for 1 \le i \le n + 1 is projective. We also determine the structure of the artin algebras with radical square zero and n simple modules which have a non-projective module M such that Ext^i(M,A) = 0 for 1 \le i \le n.