AN APPROACH TO THE FAITH-MENAL CONJECTURE

Abstract

The Faith-Menal conjecture is one of the three main open conjectures on QF rings. It says that every right noetherian and left FP-injective ring is QF. In this paper, it is proved that the conjecture is true if every nonzero complement left ideal of the ring R is not small (or not singular). Several known results are then obtained as corollaries.