Abelian Endoregular Modules

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the notion of abelian endoregular modules as those modules whose endomorphism rings are abelian von Neumann regular. We characterize an abelian endoregular module $M$ in terms of its $M$-generated submodules. We prove that if $M$ is an abelian endoregular module then so is every $M$-generated submodule of $M$. Also, the case when the (quasi-)injective hull of a module as well as the case when a direct sum of modules is abelian endoregular are presented. At the end, we study abelian endoregular modules as subdirect products of simple modules.