A characterization of left semiartinian rings

In defining the torsion-theoretic Krull dimension of an associative ring R we make use of a function δ from the complete lattice of all subsets of the torsion-theoretic spectrum of R to the complete lattice of all hereditary torsion theories on R-mod. In this note we give necessary and sufficient conditions for δ to be injective, surjective, and bijective. In particular, δ is bijective if and only if R is a left semiartinian ring.