Covers of acts over monoids. II. (Q372352)

Let \(S\) be a monoid, \(A\) an \(S\)-act and \(\mathcal X\) a class of \(S\)-acts closed under isomorphisms. By an \(\mathcal X\)-precover of \(A\) we mean an \(S\)-map \(g\colon P\to A\) for some \(P\in\mathcal X\) such that for every \(S\)-map \(g'\colon P'\to A\), for \(P'\in\mathcal X\), there exists an \(S\)-map \(f\colon P'\to P\) with \(g'=gf\). If in addition the precover satisfies the condition that each \(S\)-map \(f\colon P\to P\) with \(gf=g\) is an isomorphism, then it is a cover. This paper gives some characterizations of free, divisible, torsion free and injective covers. It is demonstrated that in some cases the results are quite different from the module case. For part I see [Covers of acts over monoids and pure epimorphisms. Proc. Edinb. Math Soc. (to appear)].