Relative homological algebra in categories of representations of infinite quivers. (Q2839873)

Let \(Q\) be a quiver, not necessarily finite, and let \(R\) be a ring. In this paper, the authors study some relative homological questions about the representations over \(Q\). This continues the research initiated by E. Enochs and his collaborators. It is shown that if the quiver has the property that for each vertex \(v\) of \(Q\) the number of terminal vertices of the arrows starting in \(v\) is finite and the ring \(R\) satisfies the property that direct sums of torsion free injective \(R\)-modules are injective, then every representation of \(Q\) by \(R\)-modules has a unique, up to isomorphism, torsionfree cover, where a representation is torsionfree when every \(R\)-module associated to a vertex is torsionfree. Following the same idea, the authors define componentwise flat representations and show the existence of flat covers and cotorsion envelopes in the category of representations. In the last section, some examples are presented.