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Criteria for flatness and injectivity

Commutative Algebra 2015-12-11 v1

Abstract

Let RR be a commutative Noetherian ring. We give criteria for flatness of RR-modules in terms of associated primes and torsion-freeness of certain tensor products. This allows us to develop a criterion for regularity if RR has characteristic pp, or more generally if it has a locally contracting endomorphism. Dualizing, we give criteria for injectivity of RR-modules in terms of coassociated primes and (h-)divisibility of certain \Hom\Hom-modules. Along the way, we develop tools to achieve such a dual result. These include a careful analysis of the notions of divisibility and h-divisibility (including a localization result), a theorem on coassociated primes across a \Hom\Hom-module base change, and a local criterion for injectivity.

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@article{arxiv.1103.4726,
  title  = {Criteria for flatness and injectivity},
  author = {Neil Epstein and Yongwei Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4726},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages

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