Internal Direct Sum
See also: Internal direct productSuppose M is some R-module, and Mi is a submodule of M for every i in I. If every x in M can be written in one and only one way as a sum of finitely many elements of the Mi, then we say that M is the internal direct sum of the submodules Mi (Halmos 1974, §18). In this case, M is naturally isomorphic to the (external) direct sum of the Mi as defined above (Adamson 1972, p.61).
A submodule N of M is a direct summand of M if there exists some other submodule N′ of M such that M is the internal direct sum of N and N′. In this case, N and N′ are complementary subspaces.
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