We consider projectivity and injectivity of Hilbert C*-modules in the categories of Hilbert C*-(bi-)modules over a fixed C*-algebra of coefficients (and another fixed C*-algebra represented as bounded module operators) and bounded (bi-)module morphisms, either necessarily adjointable or arbitrary ones. As a consequence of these investigations, we obtain a set of equivalent conditions characteri...

We characterize the finiteness of the representation type of an artin algebra in terms of the behavior of the projective covers and the injective envelopes of the simple modules with respect to the infinite radical of the module category. In case the algebra is representation-finite, we show that the nilpotency of the radical of the module category is the maximal depth of the composites of thes...

Let R be a ring and M a right R-module. Ng (1984) defined the finitely presented dimension f p dim M of M as inf n there exists an exact sequence Pn+1 → Pn → · · · → P0 → M → 0 of right R-modules, where each Pi is projective, and Pn+1 Pn are finitely generated . If no such sequence exists for any n, set f p dim M = . The right finitely presented dimension r f p dim R of R is defined as sup f p ...

Any continuous, transitive, piecewise monotonic map is determined up to a binary choice by its dimension module with the associated finite sequence of generators. The dimension module by itself determines the topological entropy of any transitive piecewise monotonic map, and determines any transitive unimodal map up to conjugacy. For a transitive piecewise monotonic map which is not essentially...

Let R be a local ring of bounded module type. It is shown that R is an almost maximal valuation ring if there exists a non-maximal prime ideal J such that R/J is an almost maximal valuation domain. We deduce from this that R is almost maximal if one of the following conditions is satisfied: R is a Q-algebra of Krull dimension ≤ 1 or the maximal ideal of R is the union of all non-maximal prime i...

Let G be a locally compact group, and let 1 < p < ∞. In this paper we investigate the injectivity of the left L1(G)-module Lp(G). We define a family of amenability type conditions called (p, q)-amenability, for any 1 ≤ p ≤ q. For a general locally compact group G we show if Lp(G) is injective, then G must be (p, p)-amenable. For a discrete group G we prove that l p(G) is injective if and only i...

In this paper, we investigate the change of rings theorems for the Gorenstein dimensions over arbitrary rings. Namely, by the use of the notion of strongly Gorenstein modules, we extend the well-known first, second, and third change of rings theorems for the classical projective and injective dimensions to the Gorenstein projective and injective dimensions, respectively. Each of the results est...

We find the universal module w(M) for functions (that need not be invariants) of finite matroids, defined on a minor-closed class M and with values in any module L over any commutative and unitary ring, that satisfy a parametrized deletion-contraction identity, F (M) = δeF (M r e) + γeF (M/e), when e is neither a loop nor a coloop. (F is called a (parametrized) weak Tutte function.) Within the ...

The model theory of abelian groups was developed by Szmielew ([28] quantifier elimination and decidability) and Eklof & Fisher [4], who observed that K1saturated abelian groups are pure injective. Eklof & Fisher related the structure theory of pure injective abelian groups with their model theory. The extension of this theory to modules over arbitrary rings became possible after the work of Bau...