Almost perfect commutative rings (Q1651510)

A commutative unitary ring \(R\) is called almost perfect if, for every nonzero ideal \(I\) of \(R\), the quotient ring \(R/I\) is a perfect ring (i.e. every \(R/I\)-module has a projective cover; see [\textit{H. Bass}, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 95, 466--488 (1960; Zbl 0094.02201)]). Then \textit{S. Bazzoni} and \textit{L. Salce} studied the case of integral domains that are almost perfect [J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 66, No. 2, 276--294 (2002; Zbl 1009.13003); Colloq. Math. 95, No. 2, 285--301 (2003; Zbl 1048.13014]. In the paper under review, the authors extend the notion of ``perfectness'' to a commutative ring by the following definition: Definition. A commutative ring \(R\) is called an almost perfect ring if \(R/I\) is perfect for all regular ideals \(I\) of \(R\), or, equivalently, \(R/Rr\) is perfect for each non-zero divisor element of \(R\). Evidently, perfect rings are almost perfect, and an almost perfect domain is nothing else than an integral domain that is an almost perfect ring. As perfect rings are of Krull dimension 0, it is clear that an almost perfect ring has Krull dimension \(\leq 1\) (exactly 1 if not perfect). Among the other results, they show that Noetherian almost perfect rings are exactly the one-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay rings. In addition they show that examples of almost perfect rings with zero-divisors are abundant.