The existence of flat covers

Abstract

We show that over a right coherent ring all pure injective left modules have flat covers. Then using recent work of Auslander and Buchweitz we show that left modules of finite flat dimension over right coherent rings also have flat covers. © 1994 American Mathematical Society.

Department(s)

Mathematics

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1209416-4

Keywords

Cover, Flat, Injective, Module

Publication Date

1-1-1994

Journal Title

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

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