Rickart and dual Rickart objects in abelian categories (Q2374326)

The main motivation of this work is to set the basic fundamentals of the study of relative Rickart and dual relative Rickart objects in abelian categories. In the paper under review, the authors develop complete categorical techniques generalizing the main classical results on (dual) relative Rickart modules. Moreover, they give some applications to (co)module categories, obtaining new and improved results, and also they show how the theory of (dual) relative Rickart objects may be employed in order to deduce corresponding properties for relative regular objects as well as for (dual) relative Baer objects. In Section 2 the authors introduce the main concepts of the paper, namely (dual) relative Rickart objects in abelian categories. For objects \(M\) and \(N\), they prove that \(N\) is \(M\)-regular in the sense of \textit{S. Dăscălescu} et al. [Appl. Categ. Struct. 14, No. 5--6, 567--577 (2006; Zbl 1116.16037)] if and only if \(N\) is \(M\)-Rickart and dual \(M\)-Rickart. The main result of this section states that if \(r:M\rightarrow M^{\prime}\) is an epimorphism, \(s:N^{\prime}\rightarrow N\) is a monomorphism, and if \(N\) is (dual) \(M\)-Rickart, then \(N^{\prime}\) is (dual) \(M^{\prime}\)-Rickart. Section 3 deals with (co)products of (dual) relative Rickart objects in abelian categories. In Section 4 the authors characterize spectral categories, \(V\)-categories and hereditary categories in terms of (dual) relative Rickart properties of certain classes of objects. Sections 5 and 6 contain the applications of the previous results to the theory of relative regular objects in abelian categories and to the study of (dual) relative Baer objects in abelian categories. In Section 7 the authors continue the study of (dual) relative Baer objects in abelian categories by means of (dual) relative Rickart objects with properties concerning (co)products. In Section 8 they prove that an abelian category \({\mathcal A}\) is spectral if and only if has enough injectives and every (injective) object is self-Baer. Also, if \({\mathcal A}\) has products and enough projectives, they obtain that \({\mathcal A}\) is hereditary and the class of projective objects of \({\mathcal A}\) is closed under products if and only if every projective object of \({\mathcal A}\) is self-Baer. In the final part of this section these results are applied to module and comodule categories. Finally, in Section 9 we can find the generalization from module categories to abelian categories and the relativization of the main result connecting Baer modules and extending modules using some suitable notions of relative nonsingularity and cononsingularity. As was pointed by the authors, in this paper the statements have two parts, one concerning relative Rickart (Baer) objects and the other one concerning dual relative Rickart (Baer) objects. They only prove the first one, the second one follows by the duality principle in abelian categories.