ALGEBRA & DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.83-96, 2020 (ESCI)
Let R be a ring, let M be a left R-module, and let U, V, F be submodules of M with F proper. We call V an F-supplement of U in M if V is minimal in the set F subset of X subset of M such that U + X = M, or equivalently, F subset of V, U +V = M and U boolean AND V is F-small in V. If every submodule of M has an F-supplement, then we call M an F-supplemented module. In this paper, we introduce and investigate F-supplement submodules and (amply) F-supplemented modules. We give some properties of these modules, and characterize finitely generated (amply) F-supplemented modules in terms of their certain submodules.