Cellular covers of cotorsion-free modules

Rüdiger Göbel¹ ; José L. Rodríguez² ; Lutz Strüngmann¹

¹ Department of Mathematics University of Duisburg-Essen Campus Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany
² Área de Geometría y Topología Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales University of Almería La cañada de San Urbano 04120 Almería, Spain

Fundamenta Mathematicae, Tome 217 (2012) no. 3, pp. 211-231

Résumé

In this paper we improve recent results dealing with cellular covers of $R$-modules. Cellular covers (sometimes called colocalizations) come up in the context of homotopical localization of topological spaces. They are related to idempotent cotriples, idempotent comonads or coreflectors in category theory.Recall that a homomorphism of $R$-modules $\pi: G\to H$ is called a cellular cover over $H$ if $\pi$ induces an isomorphism $\def\Hom{\mathop{\rm Hom}\nolimits}\pi_*: \Hom_R(G,G)\cong \Hom_R(G,H),$ where $\pi_*(\varphi)= \pi \varphi$ for each $\def\Hom{\mathop{\rm Hom}\nolimits}\varphi \in \Hom_R(G,G)$ (where maps are acting on the left). On the one hand, we show that every cotorsion-free $R$-module of rank $\def\aln{{\aleph_0}}\def\Cont{2^{\aln}}\kappa\Cont$ is realizable as the kernel of some cellular cover $G\to H$ where the rank of $G$ is $3\kappa +1$ (or 3, if $\kappa=1$). The proof is based on Corner's classical idea of how to construct torsion-free abelian groups with prescribed countable endomorphism rings. This complements results by Buckner–Dugas. On the other hand, we prove that every cotorsion-free $R$-module $H$ that satisfies some rigid conditions admits arbitrarily large cellular covers $G\to H$. This improves results by Fuchs–Göbel and Farjoun–Göbel–Segev–Shelah.

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DOI : 10.4064/fm217-3-2

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