In this note all rings are commutative and all modules are unital. Let R be a ring. An R-module M is called a multiplication module if for every submodule N of M there exists an ideal I of R such that N = IM. A submodule N of a general R-module M will be called fully invariant if ~(N) C N for every endomorphism ~ of M. The R-module M will be called finitely projective if, for every finitely generated submodule N of M there exist a positive integer n, elements mi E M (1 < i < n) and R-homomorphisms: 6i : M --, R (1< i < n) such thatfor all x in N. Note that every projective module is finitely projective, and every finitely generated finitely projective module is projective, by the Dual Basis Lemma (see, for example, [2, p. 203]). Our purpose is to prove the following result which generalizes [5, Theorem 4.1].
THEOREM A. Let R be any ring and M an R-module with annihilator A and endomorphism ring A. Then the following statements are equivalent. (i) M is a multiplication module. (iX) M is a finitely projective (R/a)-module and every submodule of M is fully invariant (iii) M is a finitely projective (R/A)-module and h is a commutative ring. (iv) M is a finitely projective (R/A)-module and M is a locally cyclic Rmodule.(
v) M is a finitely projective (R/A)-module and O(m)M C_ Rm for all m E M and every R-homomorphism 0 : M ~ R/A.With the above notation, every projective R-module M is a projective (R/A)-module and hence a finitely projective (R/A)-module by the Dual Basis Lemma. Thus the above theorem gives the following immediate corollaries, the second of which also generalizes [5, Theorem 4.1].ring.