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Submodule vs Semisimple - What's the difference?

submodule | semisimple |

As a noun submodule

is a module making up part of a larger module.

As an adjective semisimple is

in which each submodule is a direct summand.

submodule

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A module making up part of a larger module.
  • The first-year English Literature module consists of three submodules .
  • (algebra) A module contained in a larger module, both over the same ring, such that the ring multiplication in the former is a restriction of that in the latter.
  • semisimple

    English

    Adjective

    (-) (wikipedia semisimple)
  • (mathematics, of a module) In which each submodule is a direct summand.
  • (mathematics, of an algebra or ring)
  • (mathematics, of an operator or matrix) For which every invariant subspace has an invariant complement, equivalent to the minimal polynomial being squarefree.
  • (mathematics, of a Lie algebra) Being a direct sum of simple Lie algebras.
  • (mathematics, of an algebraic group) Being a linear algebraic group whose radical of the identity component is trivial.