You Hua CHEN College of Mathematics and Software Science,Sichuan Normal University,Chengdu 610068,P.R.China Hua Yu YIN Department of Mathematics,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093,P.R.China Fang Gui WANG College of Mathematics and Software Science,Sichuan
We introduce the notion of the w-radical of a submodule and study the properties of w-radicals.As applications of the obtained results,we study the w- radicals of multiplication modules and finitely generated free modules respectively. In particular,we prove that if F=R~((n)),N=sum from i=1 to m Rα_i ■ andα∈F,thenα∈w-rad_F N if and only if[α,α_1,...,α_m]_t■ w-rad_R[0,α_1,...,α_m]_t for all 1≤t≤min{m+1,n}.