NOTES ON COTORSION MODULES

Injective modules, self-injective associative rings (16D50) von Neumann regular rings and generalizations (associative algebraic aspects) (16E50) Noncommutative local and semilocal rings, perfect rings (16L30)

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The main goal of this paper is to study the analogy between well-known properties of injective envelopes and those of cotorsion envelopes. It is shown, for example, that if \(M\) is a cotorsion right \(R\)-module and \(N\) is an essential extension of \(M\) with \(N/M\) flat, then \(M=N\). As another example: If a submodule \(N\) is essential in an \(R\)-module \(M\) and \(M\) is essential in its cotorsion envelope \(C(M)\), then \(M/N\) is flat if and only if \(C(M)=C(N)\) (up to isomorphism). The properties of cotorsion modules are subsequently used to find new characterizations of certain rings. A ring \(R\) is shown to be von Neumann regular if and only if every cotorsion right \(R\)-module is injective or if and only if every cyclic singular right \(R\)-module is flat. For a commutative ring \(R\), \(R\) is shown to be a PS-ring if and only if every \(R\)-module is mininjective. Various characterizations for a right perfect ring \(R\) in terms of cotorsion modules are also proved.

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