Gorenstein projective precovers (Q523656)

This paper adds to the literature on the problem of finding the most general class of rings over which every module has a Gorenstein projective precover. This problem has been studied by many authors, and it has been shown that Gorenstein projective precovers exist over important classes of rings, such as commutative noetherian rings with finite Krull dimension, and rings which are right coherent and left n-perfect. The authors in their main result prove that, for a left GF-closed ring (that is, a ring over which the class of Gorenstein flat left modules is closed under extensions), if every Gorenstein projective module is Gorenstein flat and every Gorenstein flat module has finite Gorenstein projective dimension, then the class of Gorenstein projective modules is special precovering. The authors also prove that left GF-closed rings with the above mentioned properties, strictly contain rings which are right coherent and left n-perfect, therefore their main result extends what was previously known.