Cotilting modules over commutative Noetherian rings (Q2443281)

Let \(R\) be a commutative Noetherian ring with identity. The main purpose of this paper is to construct all cotilting modules over \(R\) using injective precovers of modules. More precisely, for each \(n\)-cotilting class \(\mathcal C\) in Mod-\(R\) the authors construct an \(n\)-cotilting module inducing \(\mathcal C\) by an iteration of injective precovers. For \(n=0\), the \(0\) cotilting modules coincide with the injective cogenerators, and the module \(\,\bigoplus_{\mathfrak{m}\in\text{Max}(R)}E(R/\mathfrak{m})\) is the minimal one. Their construction is then extended to an arbitrary positive integer \(n\) by proving that for each \(n\)-cotilting class there exists a unique minimal \(n\)-cotilting module inducing it. In the last part of the paper the authors show that for each \(1\)-cotilting class there exists an ample cotilting module \(C\) (this means that for all multiplicatively closed subset \(S\) of \(R\), the module of fractions \(S^{-1}C\) is a cotilting \(S^{-1}R\) module) inducing it, and give an example of a \(2\)-cotilting class which fails this property.