For a long period the theory of modules over rings on the one hand and comodules and Hopf modules for coalgebras and bialgebras on the other side developed quite independently. In this talk we want to outline how ideas from module theory can be applied to enrich the theory of comodules and vice versa. For this we consider A-corings C with grouplike elements over a ring A, in particular Galois c...

Alexander duality is made into a functor which extends the notion for monomial ideals to any finitely generated N-graded module. The functors associated with Alexander duality provide a duality on the level of free and injective resolutions, and numerous Bass and Betti number relations result as corollaries. A minimal injective resolution of a module M is equivalent to the injective resolution ...

We study the injective envelope I(X) of an operator space X, showing amongst other things that it is a self-dual C∗module. We describe the diagonal corners of the injective envelope of the canonical operator system associated with X. We prove that if X is an operator A-B-bimodule, then A and B can be represented completely contractively as subalgebras of these corners. Thus, the operator algebr...

A (right R-) module N is said to be a Whitehead test module for projectivity (shortly: a p-test module) provided for each module M , ExtR(M,N) = 0 implies M is projective. Dually, i-test modules are defined. For example, Z is a p-test abelian group iff each Whitehead group is free. Our first main result says that if R is a right hereditary non-right perfect ring, then the existence of p-test mo...

It is shown that every commutative local ring of bounded module type is an almost maximal valuation ring. We say that an associative commutative unitary ring R is of bounded module type if there exists a positive integer n such that every finitely generated R-module is a direct sum of submodules generated by at most n elements. For instance, every Dedekind domain has bounded module type with bo...

Nakayama (Ann. of Math. 42, 1941) showed that over an artinian serial ring every module is a direct sum of uniserial modules. Hence artinian serial rings have the property that each right (left) ideal is a finite direct sum of quasi-injective right (left) ideals. A ring with the property that each right (left) ideal is a finite direct sum of quasi-injective right (left) ideals will be called a ...

A generalization of injective modules (noted GI-modules), distinct from p-injective modules, is introduced. Rings whose p-injective modules are GI are characterized. If M is a left GI-module, E = End(AM), then E/J(E) is von Neumann regular, where J(E) is the Jacobson radical of the ring E. A is semisimple Artinian if, and only if, every left A-module is GI. If A is a left p. p., left GI-ring su...

We prove versions of results of Foxby and Holm about modules of finite (Gorenstein) injective dimension and finite (Gorenstein) projective dimension with respect to a semidualizing module. We also verify two special cases of a question of Takahashi and White.