Cotorsion pairs generated by modules of bounded projective dimension. (Q2655776)

In this paper, the authors apply the theory of cotorsion pairs to study closure properties of classes of modules with finite projective dimension with respect to direct limit operations and to filtrations. In the second section they introduce notations and some basic facts about cotorsion pairs. The relative Mittag-Leffler conditions were used by \textit{S. Bazzoni} and \textit{D. Herbera} [in Algebr. Represent. Theory 11, No. 1, 43-61 (2008; Zbl 1187.16008)]. The notions concerning relative Mittag-Leffler modules are given in Section 3, where they also prove some results about these modules. They specialize to modules of bounded projective dimension in Section 4, and examine the question of the countable type in Section 5. In Sections 6, authors provide the first main result of this paper, that is a characterization of rings with a classical ring of quotients \(Q\) of little finitistic dimension \(0\). In Section 7, they give the second main result by patching together the results for countably presented modules with the ones giving the countable type proving that if the ring is an order in an \(\aleph_0\)-Noetherian ring \(Q\) of little finitistic dimension \(0\), then the cotorsion pair generated by the modules of projective dimension at most one is of finite type if and only if \(Q\) has big finitistic dimension \(0\). This applies, for example, to semiprime Goldie rings and to Cohen Macaulay Noetherian commutative rings. They devote Section 8 to expose some applications of their work. They finish their discussion in Section 9 by examples and counterexamples that limit the scope for possible generalizations. In particular, they answer in the affirmative an open problem on the structure of one-dimensional divisible modules of projective dimension one over commutative domains posed by \textit{L. Fuchs} and \textit{L. Salce} [in their book Modules over a valuation domain. Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 97. New York-Basel: Marcel Dekker (1985; Zbl 0578.13004)]. Also, in Example 9.2 (ii) they give a negative answer to the open problem 3 raised by \textit{R. Göbel } and \textit{J. Trlifaj} [Approximations and endomorphism algebras of modules. de Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics 41. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (2006; Zbl 1121.16002)]. They show that there are commutative (Noetherian) domains with modules of weak dimension \(2\) that are not direct limits of modules of finite projective dimension at most \(2\).