Rings over which flat covers of simple modules are projective.

Free, projective, and flat modules and ideals in associative algebras (16D40) Simple and semisimple modules, primitive rings and ideals in associative algebras (16D60) Noncommutative local and semilocal rings, perfect rings (16L30)

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It is known that the almost-perfect (\(A\)-perfect) rings (i.e. rings such that every flat \(R\)-module is \(R\)-projective) are exactly those rings \(R\) over which flat covers of finitely generated modules are projective [\textit{B. Amini, A. Amini, M. Ershad}, Commun. Algebra 37, No. 12, 4227-4240 (2009; Zbl 1190.16002) and \textit{A. Amini, M. Ershad, H. Sharif}, Commun. Algebra 36, No. 8, 2862-2871 (2008; Zbl 1155.16002)].NEWLINENEWLINE Let \(\mathbf S\) be the class of all representatives of simple right \(R\)-modules, \(R\) a ring with 1. A ring \(R\) is defined to be right \(B\)-perfect if for every flat module \(F\) and \(S\in\mathbf S\) and homomorphisms \(f\colon R\to S\), \(h\colon F\to S\), there exists a homomorphism \(g\colon F\to R\) such that \(h=fg\). It is shown that \(R\) is right \(B\)-perfect if and only if flat covers of simple modules are projective. Several other characterizations for \(R\) to be right \(B\)-perfect are also found. It is shown by means of an example that, although the class of \(A\)-perfect rings is contained in the class of \(B\)-perfect rings, the reverse inclusion is not true.NEWLINENEWLINE It is proven that a ring \(R\) is right \(B\)-perfect if and only if \(R\) is semilocal and any indecomposable flat right \(R\)-module with a unique maximal submodule is projective. Right \(B\)-perfect rings are also characterized as those rings \(R\) for which every right ideal containing \(J(R)\) is cotorsion, or equivalently, as the semilocal rings such that \(J(R)\) is cotorsion.

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