The pure-injective R-modules are defined easily enough: as those modules which are injective over all pure embeddings, where an embedding A → B is said to be pure if every finite system of R-linear equations with constants from A and a solution in B has a solution in A. But the definition itself gives no indication of the rich theory around purity and pure-injectivity. The purpose of this surve...

Over an Artin algebra Λ many standard concepts from homological algebra can be relativized with respect to a contravariantly finite subcategory C of mod-Λ, which contains the projective modules. The main aim of this article is to prove that the resulting relative homological dimensions of modules are preserved by stable equivalences between Artin algebras. As a corollary, we see that Auslander’...

We study the connection between the axiom of choice and the principles of existence of enough projective and injective abehan groups. We also introduce a weak choice principle that says, roughly, that the axiom of choice is violated in only a set of different ways. This principle holds in all ordinary Fraenkel-Mostowski-Specker and Cohen models where choice fails, and it implies, among other th...

let $r$ be a commutative noetherian ring with non-zero identity and $fa$ an ideal of $r$. let $m$ be a finite $r$--module of finite projective dimension and $n$ an arbitrary finite $r$--module. we characterize the membership of the generalized local cohomology modules $lc^{i}_{fa}(m,n)$ in certain serre subcategories of the category of modules from upper bounds. we define and study the properti...