The left and the right parts of a module category. (Q1887473)

Let \(A\) be an Artin algebra, and \(\text{mod\,}A\) be the category of all finitely generated right \(A\)-modules. The class \({\mathcal L}_A\) (or \({\mathcal R}_A\)) is the full subcategory of \(\text{mod\,}A\) consisting of all indecomposable right \(A\)-modules whose predecessors (or successors, respectively) have projective dimension (or injective dimension, respectively) at most one. These subcategories play an important role in the study of several classes of algebras, including quasi-tilted algebras, shod algebras, weakly shod algebras, laura algebras. In this paper, the authors give a description of the classes \({\mathcal L}_A\) and \({\mathcal R}_A\) in the general case. They also characterize Artin algebras \(A\) for which the class \({\mathcal L}_A\) is contravariantly finite in \(\text{mod\,}A\), and Artin algebras \(A\) for which the class \({\mathcal R}_A\) is covariantly finite in \(\text{mod\,}A\).