ON DISCRETE GROUPS

The concept of a continuous module is a generalization of that of an injective module, and conditions ($C_1$), (C$_2$) and ($C_3$) are given for this concept in [4]. In this paper, we study modules with properties that are dual to continuity. These will be called discrete and we discuss discrete abelian groups. Throughout R is a ring with identity, M is a module over R, G is an abelian group of finite rank, E is the ring of endomorphisms of G and S is the center of E. Dual to the notion of essential submodules, we define small submodules of a module M over R.(omitted)