Semisimple submodules of biserial modules #
A semisimple submodule contained in the sum of two uniserial branches has composition length at most two. This is the structural length bound used for the intersection of the two local branches in the Pogorzały--Skowroński induction.
Every semisimple submodule is contained in the socle of the ambient module.
A semisimple submodule contained in the sum of two uniserial submodules has composition length at most two. Quotienting by the first branch makes the kernel embed in the first branch and the range embed in the second.
A semisimple submodule of the radical of a biserial module has composition length at most two.
A semisimple length-two submodule of the radical of a local biserial module is its whole socle.
A nonzero finite-length module of length at most two is simple as soon as the length-two case has been excluded.
A semisimple module of composition length two is a direct sum of two simple submodules.
A module whose Jacobson radical is semisimple of composition length at most two is biserial. At length two, split the radical into two simple summands; below length two, the radical is simple or zero.
A semisimple finite-length module of length greater than two admits
three successive simple summands. The nested complement form is convenient
for later quotient constructions: M = S ⊕ C, C = T ⊕ D, and
D = U ⊕ V.