perfect and semiperfect rings
A ring is called left/right perfect if for any left/right -module there exists a projective cover .
A ring is called left/right semiperfect if for any left/right finitely-generated -module there exists a projective cover .
It can be shown that there are rings which are left perfect, but not right perfect. However being semiperfect is left-right symmetric property.
Some examples of semiperfect rings include:
- 1.
perfect rings;
- 2.
left/right Artinian rings;
- 3.
finite-dimensional
algebras over a field .