Modules which are coinvariant under automorphisms of their projective covers

Abstract

In this paper we study modules coinvariant under automorphisms of their projective covers. We first provide an alternative, and in fact, a more succinct and conceptual proof for the result that a module $M$ is invariant under automorphisms of its injective envelope if and only if given any submodule $N$ of $M$, any monomorphism $f:N\to M$ can be extended to an endomorphism of $M$ and then, as a dual of it, we show that over a right perfect ring, a module $M$ is coinvariant under automorphisms of its projective cover if and only if for every submodule $N$ of $M$, any epimorphism $\phi :M\to M/N$ can be lifted to an endomorphism of $M$.

To appear in J. Algebra