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The cotorsion pair generated by the Gorenstein projective modules and $\lambda$-pure-injective modules

Representation Theory 2023-12-05 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

We prove that, if GProj\textrm{GProj} is the class of all Gorenstein projective modules over a ring RR, then GP=(GProj,GProj)\mathfrak{GP}=(\textrm{GProj},\textrm{GProj}^\perp) is a cotorsion pair. Moreover, GP\mathfrak{GP} is complete when all projective modules are λ\lambda-pure-injective for some infinite regular cardinal λ\lambda (in particular, if RR is right Σ\Sigma-pure-injective); the latter condition is shown to be consistent with the axioms of ZFC modulo the existence of strongly compact cardinals. We also thoroughly study λ\lambda-pure-injective modules for an arbitrary infinite regular cardinal λ\lambda, proving along the way that: any cosyzygy module in an injective coresolution of a λ\lambda-pure-injective module is λ\lambda-pure-injective; the cotorsion pair cogenerated by a class of λ\lambda-pure-injective modules is cogenerated by a set and, under an additional technical assumption, generated by a set. Finally, assuming the set-theoretic hypothesis that 00^\sharp does not exist, we prove that the category of right RR-modules has enough λ\lambda-pure-injective objects if and only if the ring RR is right pure-semisimple. This, in turn, follows from a rather surprising result that λ\lambda-pure-injectivity amounts to pure-injectivity in the absence of 00^\sharp.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.08602,
  title  = {The cotorsion pair generated by the Gorenstein projective modules and $\lambda$-pure-injective modules},
  author = {Manuel Cortés-Izurdiaga and Jan Šaroch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08602},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages

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