Abstract
Matlis showed that the injective hull of a simple module over
a commutative Noetherian ring is Artinian. In several recent papers, non-
commutative Noetherian rings whose injective hulls of simple modules are lo-
cally Artinian have been studied. This property had been denoted by property
(). In this paper we investigate, which non-Noetherian semiprimary commu-
tative quasi-local rings (R;m) satisfy property (). For quasi-local rings (R;m)
with m3 = 0, we prove a characterization of this property in terms of the dual
space of Soc(R). Furthermore, we show that (R;m) satises () if and only if
its associated graded ring gr(R) does.
Given a eld F and vector spaces V and W and a symmetric bilinear
map : V V ! W we consider commutative quasi-local rings of the form
F V W, whose product is given by
(1; v1;w1)(2; v2;w2) = (12; 1v2 + 2v1; 1w2 + 2w1 + (v1; v2))
in order to build new examples and to illustrate our theory. In particular we
prove that a quasi-local commutative ring with radical cube-zero does not sat-
isfy () if and only if it has a factor, whose associated graded ring is of the
form F V F with V innite dimensional and non-degenerated.