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Characterizations of Modules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David J. Fieldhouse
David J. Fieldhouse*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
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In this paper we use the Bourbaki [2] conventions for rings and modules. All rings are associative but not necessarily commutative and have a 1; all modules are unital.

Bass [1] calls a ring A left perfect if and only if every left A -module has a projective cover, which he shows is equivalent to every flat left A -module being projective. Bass calls a ring A semi-perfect if and only if every finitely generated module has a projective cover and shows that this concept is leftright symmetric.

We will define a ring A to be quasi-perfect if and only if every finitely generated flat left A -module is projective.

An exercise [6, Exercise 10, p. 136] is given by Lambek to show that every semi-perfect ring is quasi-perfect.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 1971 , pp. 608 - 610
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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