Characterizing categoricity in the class $Add(M)$
Abstract
We show that the condition of being categorical in a tail of cardinals can be characterized for the class of -modules of the form . More precisely, let be a ring and be an -module which can be generated by elements. Then is -categorical in all if and only if is -categorical in some ; if and only if every -module of cardinal in is -free for all ; if and only if every -module of cardinal in is -free. As an application, we show that the class of pure-projective -modules is categorical in some (all) big cardinal if and only if the module is free for each countably generated pure-projective -module ; the class of semisimple -modules is categorical in some (all) big cardinal if and only if admits a unique simple module up to isomorphism, partly answering a question proposed in [5, Mazari-Armida M., Characterizing categoricity in several classes of modules. J. Algebra 617, 382-401 (2023)].
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@article{arxiv.2502.19641,
title = {Characterizing categoricity in the class $Add(M)$},
author = {Xiaolei Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19641},
year = {2026}
}