On certain homological finiteness conditions

In this paper, we show that the injective dimension of all projective modules over a countable ring is bounded by the self-injective dimension of the ring. We also examine the extent to which the flat length of all injective modules is bounded by the flat length of an injective cogenerator. To that end, we study the relation between these finiteness conditions on the ring and certain properties of the (strict) Mittag-Leffler modules. We also examine the relation between the self-injective dimension of the integral group ring of a group and Ikenaga’s generalized (co-)homological dimensio

RD-flatness and RD-injectivity

It is proved that every commutative ring whose RD-injective modules are $\Sigma$-RD-injective is the product of a pure semi-simple ring and a finite ring. A complete characterization of commutative rings for which each artinian (respectively simple) module is RD-injective, is given. These results can be obtained by using the properties of RD-flat modules and RD-coflat modules which are respectively the RD-relativization of flat modules and fp-injective modules. It is also shown that a commutative ring is perfect if and only if each RD-flat module is RD-projective.Comment: A new section is added to the version published in Communications in Algebra where a complete proof of Theorem 3.1 is give

Relative FP-injective and FP-flat complexes and their model structures

In this paper, we introduce the notions of ${\rm FP}_n$-injective and ${\rm FP}_n$-flat complexes in terms of complexes of type ${\rm FP}_n$. We show that some characterizations analogous to that of injective, FP-injective and flat complexes exist for ${\rm FP}_n$-injective and ${\rm FP}_n$-flat complexes. We also introduce and study ${\rm FP}_n$-injective and ${\rm FP}_n$-flat dimensions of modules and complexes, and give a relation between them in terms of Pontrjagin duality. The existence of pre-envelopes and covers in this setting is discussed, and we prove that any complex has an ${\rm FP}_n$-flat cover and an ${\rm FP}_n$-flat pre-envelope, and in the case $n \geq 2$ that any complex has an ${\rm FP}_n$-injective cover and an ${\rm FP}_n$-injective pre-envelope. Finally, we construct model structures on the category of complexes from the classes of modules with bounded ${\rm FP}_n$-injective and ${\rm FP}_n$-flat dimensions, and analyze several conditions under which it is possible to connect these model structures via Quillen functors and Quillen equivalences.Comment: 41 page

The Existence of Relative pure Injective Envelopes

Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a class of finitely presented $R$-modules such that $R\in \mathcal{S}$ and $\mathcal{S}$ has a subset $\mathcal{S}^*,$ with the property that for any $U\in \mathcal{S}$ there is a $U^*\in \mathcal{S}^*$ with $U^*\cong U.$ We show that the class of $\mathcal{S}$-pure injective $R$-modules is preenveloping. As an application, we deduce that the left global $\mathcal{S}$-pure projective dimension of $R$ is equal to its left global $\mathcal{S}$-pure injective dimension. As our main result, we prove that, in fact, the class of $\mathcal{S}$-pure injective $R$-modules is enveloping.Comment: to appear in Colloquium Mathematicu