On Modules Whose Proper Homomorphic Images Are of Smaller Cardinality
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Abstract
Abstract LetRbe a commutative ring with identity, and letMbe a unitary module overR. We callMH-smaller (HS for short) if and only ifMis infinite and |M/N| < |M| for every nonzero submoduleNofM. After a brief introduction, we show that there exist nontrivial examples of HS modules of arbitrarily large cardinality over Noetherian and non-Noetherian domains. We then prove the following result: supposeMis faithful overR,Ris a domain (we will show that we can restrict to this case without loss of generality), andKis the quotient field ofR. IfMis HS overR, thenRis HS as a module over itself,R⊆M⊆K, and there exists a generating setSforMoverRwith |S| < |R|. We use this result to generalize a problem posed by Kaplansky and conclude the paper by answering an open question on Jónsson modules.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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