On a class of locally Butler groups

summary:A torsionfree abelian group $B$ is called a Butler group if $Bext(B,T) = 0$ for any torsion group $T$. It has been shown in [DHR] that under $CH$ any countable pure subgroup of a Butler group of cardinality not exceeding $\aleph_\omega$ is again Butler. The purpose of this note is to show that this property has any Butler group which can be expressed as a smooth union $\cup_{\alpha < \mu}B_\alpha$ of pure subgroups $B_\alpha$ having countable typesets

Weak Krull-Schmidt theorem

summary:Recently, A. Facchini [3] showed that the classical Krull-Schmidt theorem fails for serial modules of finite Goldie dimension and he proved a weak version of this theorem within this class. In this remark we shall build this theory axiomatically and then we apply the results obtained to a class of some modules that are torsionfree with respect to a given hereditary torsion theory. As a special case we obtain that the weak Krull-Schmidt theorem holds for the class of modules that are both uniform and co-uniform. A simple example shows that this generalizes the result of [3] mentioned above

Precovers

summary:Let $\mathcal G$ be an abstract class (closed under isomorpic copies) of left $R$-modules. In the first part of the paper some sufficient conditions under which $\mathcal G$ is a precover class are given. The next section studies the $\mathcal G$-precovers which are $\mathcal G$-covers. In the final part the results obtained are applied to the hereditary torsion theories on the category on left $R$-modules. Especially, several sufficient conditions for the existence of $\sigma$-torsionfree and $\sigma$-torsionfree $\sigma$-injective covers are presented

Relative exact covers

summary:Recently Rim and Teply [11] found a necessary condition for the existence of $\sigma$-torsionfree covers with respect to a given hereditary torsion theory for the category $R$-mod. This condition uses the class of $\sigma$-exact modules; i.e. the $\sigma$-torsionfree modules for which every its $\sigma$-torsionfree homomorphic image is $\sigma$-injective. In this note we shall show that the existence of $\sigma$-torsionfree covers implies the existence of $\sigma$-exact covers, and we shall investigate some sufficient conditions for the converse