Flat modules over valuation rings (Q2371820)

A number of ring and module properties are explored in stride; these properties include P-flatness, content flatness, local projectivity, finite projectivity and single projectivity, separable, projective and free modules. Most of these properties are discussed in the setting where the base ring \(R\) is a valuation ring. Some of the results are as follows: Theorem 2. The ring \(R\) is left perfect if and only if each flat left module is a content module. Theorem 7. Let \(R\) be a commutative ring with a self-FP-injective quotient ring \(Q\). Then each flat \(R\)-module is finitely projective iff \(Q\) is perfect. Theorem 16 gives a characterization of commutative PP-Baer rings and singly projective rings. Theorem 30. If \(R\) is a valuation ring, then the following three conditions are equivalent: (1) \(R\) is maximal; (2) each singly projective \(R\)-module is separable; (3) each flat content module is locally projective. Furthermore, characterizations are given for a valuation ring (with non-trivial zero divisors) to be strongly coherent and \(\pi\)-coherent.