Criteria for flatness and injectivity (Q444206)

Let \(R\) be a commutative noetherian ring. In the paper under review the authors give criteria for flatness (resp. injectivity) of \(R\)-modules in terms of associated primes (resp. coassociated primes) and torsion-freeness (respectively h-divisibility) of certain tensor products (resp. Hom-modules). They use this criteria to develop a criterion for regularity if \(R\) has characteristic \(p\), or more generally if it has a locally contracting endomorphism. The authors give a careful analysis of the notions of divisibility and \(h\)-divisibility (including a localization result), a theorem on coassociated primes across a Hom-modules base change, and a local criterion for injectivity. This well-written paper concludes with a number of interesting results and applications.