Characterization of monoids by properties of regular acts (Q1089441)

The branch of investigations of semigroups studying connections between properties of the category of left acts over a monoid \(S\) and those of the monoid \(S\) itself is called the homological classification of monoids. In this direction there are numerous results in the majority of which the properties around projectivity, injectivity and flatness have been used for homological classifications. In the present paper the authors use for the homological classifications of monoids the concept of a regular act: A left \(S\)-act \(A\) is called regular if all cyclic subacts of \(A\) are projective. The work can be divided in two parts. In the first part (section 2) the authors investigate monoids over which all left acts being free (torsion free, projective, injective, projective generators, injective generators, weakly injective, divisible, faithful, etc.) are regular too. In many cases they give complete descriptions of such monoids. In the second one (section 3) the reverse problems are considered: monoids over which all regular left acts have one of the above mentioned properties are investigated. As above, the authors give complete descriptions of such monoids in many cases too. By the way the authors obtain other useful results and formulate interesting open problems.