On flattening of coherent sheaves and of projective morphisms (Q2576977)

Let \(A\) be a noetherian ring and \(M\) a finitely generated \(A\)-module. If \(A\) is a domain then \textit{H. Rossi} proved in [Rice Univ. Stud. 54, 63--73 (1968; Zbl 0179.40103)] that there is a projective birational morphism \(\pi:X\rightarrow \text{Spec}(A)\) such that \(\pi^*(M)/\text{torsion}(\pi^*(M))\) is flat \({\mathcal O}_X\)-module and \(\pi\) is universal with this flattening property. The aim of this paper is to extend Rossi's result in the case when \(A\) is not reduced. Thus the author had to extend in this frame many notions including the birational morphism.