On Matlis reflexive modules (Q6974787)

The author investigates Matlis reflexive modules, originally introduced in [\textit{E. Matlis}, Pac. J. Math. 8, 511--528 (1958; Zbl 0084.26601)]. It is shown that the Matlis reflexive modules form a Serre subcategory satisfying the Krull-Schmidt property (i.e. any reflexive module admits an essentially unique decomoposition into finitely many indecomposable modules with local endomorphisms rings). Next a version Matlis duality for locally finitely supported modules is obtained. Section 4 is devoted to the study of categories of extension and this is applied, in the following section, to the case of Artinian and Noetherian classes. Characterizations of locally finitely supported \(\hat A\)-modules are presented, where \(\hat A\) is the completion of a commutative noetherian ring \(A\). Finally, some interesting examples are presented.