A minimum depth is assigned to a ring homomorphism and a bimodule over its codomain. When the homomorphism is an inclusion and the bimodule is the codomain, the recent notion of depth of a subring in a paper by Boltje-Danz-Külshammer is recovered . Subring depth below an ideal gives a lower bound for BDK’s subring depth of a group algebra pair or a semisimple complex algebra pair.

Let A be a dual Banach algebra with predual A∗ and consider the following assertions: (A) A is Connes-amenable; (B) A has a normal, virtual diagonal; (C) A∗ is an injective A-bimodule. For general A, all that is known is that (B) implies (A) whereas, for von Neumann algebras, (A), (B), and (C) are equivalent. We show that (C) always implies (B) whereas the converse is false for A = M(G) where G...

Let A be a dual Banach algebra with predual A∗ and consider the following assertions: (A) A is Connes-amenable; (B) A has a normal, virtual diagonal; (C) A∗ is an injective A-bimodule. For general A, all that is known is that (B) implies (A) whereas, for von Neumann algebras, (A), (B), and (C) are equivalent. We show that (C) always implies (B) whereas the converse is false for A = M(G) where G...

let $h$ be a hopf algebra and $a$ an $h$-bimodule algebra‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we investigate gorenstein global dimensions for hopf‎ ‎algebras and twisted smash product algebras $astar h$‎. ‎results from‎ ‎the literature are generalized‎.

We describe obstructions to a direct-limit preserving right-exact functor between categories of quasi-coherent sheaves on schemes being isomorphic to tensoring with a bimodule. When the domain scheme is affine, all obstructions vanish and we recover Watts Theorem. We use our description of these obstructions to prove that if a direct-limit preserving right-exact functor F from a smooth curve is...