文摘
It is proved that a commutative ring with identity R is arithmetic (i.e., the ideal lattice of R is distributive) if and only if for any finitely generated (or any finitely presented) R-module M and any ideal I of R the equality I +AnnM = Ann(M/IM) holds. Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 21–23, 2014.