WHEN SELF-INJECTIVE RINGS ARE QF: A REPORT ON A PROBLEM

Abstract

Theorems of Osofsky and Kato imply that a right and left self-injective one-sided perfect ring is quasi-Frobenius (= QF). The corresponding question for one-sided self-injective one or two-sided perfect rings remains open, even assuming that the ring is semiprimary. The latter version of the problem is known as Faith's Conjecture (FC). We survey results on QF rings, especially those obtained in connection with FC. We also review various results that provide partial answers to another problem of Faith: Is a right FGF ring necessarily QF? On this topic, we provide a new result, namely that if all factor rings of R are right FGF, then R is QF (Theorem 6.1). In Sec. 7 we review results concerning the question of when a D-ring is QF. Sections 8 and 9 are devoted respectively to IF rings, and to Σ-injective rings and Σ-CS rings.