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A Note on Projectively Coresolved Gorenstein Flat Complexes and Dimensions
关于PGF复形和维数的注记
1 College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou 730030, Gansu, China
2 Gansu Provincial Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
† Corresponding author. E-mail: lubo55@126.com
Received:
10
April
2025
In this article, we first establish a recollement related to projectively coresolved Gorenstein flat (PGF) complexes. Secondly, we define and study PGF dimension of complexes, we denote it PGF(X) for a complex X. It is shown that the PGF(X) is equal to the infimum of the set {supA | there exists a diagram of morphisms of complexes A←G→X, such that G→X is a special PGF precover of X and G→A is a PGF almost isomorphism}.
摘要
首先,建立了相对于projectively coresolved Gorenstein flat (PGF)复形的粘合。其次,定义并研究了PGF维数,对于任意的复形X,将其PGF维数记作PGF(X)。得到了PGF(X)是
,
的下确界。
Key words: projectively coresolved Gorenstein flat (PGF) module / PGF complex / recollement / PGF dimension
关键字 : PGF模 / PGF复形 / 粘合 / PGF维数
Cite this article: DU Bowen, LU Bo. A Note on Projectively Coresolved Gorenstein Flat Complexes and Dimensions[J]. Wuhan Univ J of Nat Sci, 2025, 30(5): 447-452.
Biography: DU Bowen, male, Master candidate, research direction: homological algebra. E-mail: 1439003095@qq.com
Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12061061), Young Talents Team Project of Gansu Province (2025QNTD49), Lanshan Talents Project of Northwest Minzu University (Xbmulsrc202412) and Longyuan Young Talents of Gansu Province
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0 Introduction
The famous "flat cover conjecture", that is, all modules have a flat cover over any ring, is addressed by Enochs[1]. It has now been settled by Bican et al[2]. It is natural to consider the Gorenstein version of "flat cover conjecture". Thus, the existence of Gorenstein flat covers of moduls is concerned by many scholars[3-5]. In particular, Yang and Liu[4] proved that all modules have Gorenstein flat covers over a left ring over which the class of Gorenstein flat modules is closed under extensions (GF-closed). Recently, Šaroch and Št'ovíček[6] proved that every ring is always GF-closed in terms of the notion of projectively coresolved Gorenstein flat (PGF) modules. Thus, the Gorenstein version of flat cover conjecture holds as well. Recently, the researcheres extend the notion of PGF modules to the category of complexes, and call it PGF complexes[7].
The definition of recollements of triangulated categories was first introduced by Beilinson et al[8] to study the triangulated categories of perverse sheaves over singular spaces, and later was used by Scott et al[9] to stratify the derived categories of quasi-hereditary algebras arising from the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras and algebraic groups.
Homological dimension plays an important role in homological algebra, and has been extended to the setting of complexes by many researchers. Avramov and Foxby[10] defined the notion of projective dimension for a complex X, pd(X), as the infimum of the set {sup P | P is a DG-projective resolution of X}. They showed that for any complexes X,
Note that if
is a quasi-isomorphism then
for every DG-projective complex Q. Thus, the DG-projective resolution
is a special DG-projective precover. This means that for any complex X,
Gorenstein projective dimension of complexes, Gpd(X), was introduced by Veliche and it follows from Ref. [11] that
In Ref. [12], the authors introduced and studied the dimension of complexes, which is related to special Gorenstein projective precovers:
If no such
exists, set
.
Inspired by the above, in this article, we study the recollement and dimension related to PGF complexes.
1 Preliminaries
In this section we recall some necessary notations and definitions. Throughout the article, let R denote an associative ring with an identity and by the term "module" we always mean a left R-module.
A complex X of modules is often displayed as a sequence
with
for all
. The n-th cycle (resp., homology) module is defined as
(resp.,
) and denoted by
(resp.,
). The homology complex
is defined by setting
and
for all
. A complex X is called exact if
for all
. For a complex X, we associate the numbers
The complex X is called bounded above (resp., bounded below) if
(resp.,
). It is called bounded if it is both bounded above and bounded below.
In the following, we will use
and
to denote the category of complexes of modules and the derived category. The symbol
is used to designate quasi-isomorphisms in
. For complexes
and
, denote by
the Abelian group of morphisms from
to
in
and
for
will denote the groups we get from the right derived functor of
.
For two complexes
and
, denote by
the complex with
for all
and with the boundary operator given by
for every
. We denote by
the right derived functors of
and call it the absolute cohomology functors. Two morphisms
and
in
are called homotopic, denoted by
, if there exists a homomorphism
of degree 1 such that
.
Let X be a complex of right R-modules and Y a complex of left R-modules, denote the usual tensor product of X and Y, where
and
for
. We define
to be
with the maps
where
is used to denote the coset in
. Then we get a complex. Since
is a right exact functor between Abelian categories with enough projectives, we can construct left derived functors which we denote by
.
Let
be an Abelian category and
a subcategory of
. For an object
write
, if
for each object
. Dually, one can define
.
Recall that a pair
of subcategories of
is called a cotorsion pair or cotorsion theory provided that
and
. A morphism
with
is called an
-precover of M if for any morphism
with
, there is a morphism
such that
. An epimorphism
with
is said to be a special
-precover of M if
is an
-precover of
and
.
A cotorsion pair
is said to be complete provided that every object in
has a special
-preenvelope and a special
-precover. A cotorsion pair
cogenerated by a set
of objects, i.e. such that
, is complete, see Ref. [13]. A cotorsion pair
is said to be hereditary provided that
for each object
and each object
. Ref. [3] is a standard reference for cotorsion pairs[3]. A complete cotorsion pair
is said to be a projective cotorsion pair[14] if
is thick and
coincides with the class of projective objects. Recall from Ref. [14] that a class
is called thick provided that it is closed under direct summands, exte nsions, and taking kernels of epimorphisms and cokernels of monomorphisms.
2 A Recollement Related to PGF Complexes
We begin with the definition of PGF modules and PGF complexes. Note that PGF modules not only are Gorenstein flat, but also Gorenstein projective[6].
Definition 1[6-7] A module M is said to be PGF if there exists an exact sequence of projective modules
with
and which remains exact after applying
for any injective right
-modules E.
A complex X is said to be PGF if there exists an exact sequence of projective complexes
with
and which remains exact after applying
for any injective complex I of right
-modules.
In the following, we will use
and
to denote the category of PGF modules and the category of PGF complexes.
We give some basic results for PGF modules and PGF complexes which are obtained by Refs. [6-7, 14].
Lemma 1 (1) The class of PGF modules is projectively resolving, closed under arbitrary direct sums, under direct summands and transfinite extensions.
(2)
is hereditary complete cotorsion pair.
(3)
is a projective cotorsion pair which is cogenerated by a set.
(4) If M is a PGF module, then
for any injective right
-modules E and any
.
(5) A complex G is a PGF complex if and only if
is a PGF module for each
.
Remark 1 Gorenstein flat complexes are exactly the complexes with Gorenstein flat components over right coherent rings, independently[6, 15]. Šaroch and Št'ovíček[6] showed that the class of Gorenstein flat modules is always closed under extensions over any ring. Yang and Liu[15] proved that Gorenstein flat complexes are exactly the complexes with Gorenstein flat components whenever the class of Gorenstein flat modules is closed under extensions. Thus, Gorenstein flat complexes are exactly the complexes with Gorenstein flat components.
We obtain the following result which gives equivalent characterizations of that Gorenstein projective modules are Gorenstein flat by Ref. [7].
Lemma 2 The following statements are equivalent:
(1) Every Gorenstein projective modules are Gorenstein flat modules.
(2) Every Gorenstein projective modules are PGF modules.
(3) Every Gorenstein projective complexes are Gorenstein flat complexes.
(4) Every Gorenstein projective complexes are PGF complexes.
Proof
follows from Ref. [6].
follows by Ref. [16] and Remark 1.
holds by Ref. [7].
Definition 2[14] Let
,
and
be triangulated categories. We say that
is a recollement of
and
if there are six triangle functors as in Fig. 1 such that
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Fig. 1 The definition of recollement |
(1)
and
are adjoint triples;
(2) F,
and
are fully faithful;
(3) For any object
, we have
if and only if
for some
.
Recall from Ref. [17] that a triple
of classes of objects in an Abelian category is called a Hovey triple if
and
are complete cotorsion pairs and the class
is thick. As a consequence of Refs. [6-7, 14], we obtain the following result.
Lemma 3 There exist two projective cotorsion pairs
and
which are cogenerated by sets, where
denote the class of all exact PGF complexes. Moreover,
and
are Hovey triples. In particular, every complex has a special PGF precover and a special exact PGF precover.
Using Lemma 3 and Ref. [17], we also obtain two projective model structures on
in which every object is fibrant, the objects in
(resp.,
) are cofibrant, and the objects in
(resp.,
) are trivial. We call these PGF model structures (resp., exact PGF model structures).
We use
and
to denote the homotopy category of all exact PGF complexes and the homotopy category of all PGF complexes, respectively. Then we obtain the following conclusion.
Theorem 1 Let R be a ring. There is a recollement in Fig. 2 where
and
represent special exact preenvelopes and special
-preenvelopes, respectively,
and
represent special DG-projective precovers and special exact PGF precovers, respectively,
denotes the inclusion functor.
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Fig. 2 The recollement of PGF |
Proof We can see that
and
are projective cotorsion pairs in
by Lemma 3. We also notice that
is a projective cotorsion pair in
,
and
by Ref. [7]. As we know, the homotopy category of all DG-projective complexes
is isomorphic to
. Thus, the result is obtain by Ref. [14].
3 PGF Dimension of Complexes
In this section, we will investigate the dimension with respect to PGF complexes.
Since
is a projective cotorsion pair cogenerated by a set, thus by Ref. [14], we conclude that
, in which each degree component of the associated graded object is a PGF module, forms a projective cotorsion pair. By Lemma 1, the complexes in
are precisely the PGF complexes. Then by Ref. [18], we obtain the following definition.
Definition 3 Let X be a complex. The dimension of X related to special PGF precovers, PGF(X), is defined as
If no such G exists, set
.
Definition 4 Let A and G be two PGF complexes. An epimorphism of complexes
is said to be PGF almost isomorphic if
is exact and bounded below. It is clear that
is a PGF complex.
Theorem 2 Suppose that G is a PGF complex. Then
Proof Set
and 
Since G is a PGF complex, it can be seen that
. We only need to concentrate on
. If
then the proof is evident. Suppose that
. Then there exists a special PGF precover
such that
,
is a PGF module and
. Hence the short exact sequence of complexes
is splits. Then we have
. This implies that
. We can conclude that
. If
, then for any integer n, we can find a PGF precover
such that
and
is a PGF module. Similar discussion yields that
. This leads to the conclusion that
, which is to say
. Thus
.
We show that
. If
, then the proof is trivial. Assume s is an integer. Then
, and
is a PGF module. Consider the commutative diagram (Fig. 3). Define K and A as the following sequences
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Fig. 3 The commutative diagram about G |
It is clealy that K is exact and
is PGF amodule. Then the map
is a PGF almost isomorphic and
. Consequently,
. Suppose
, hence for any integer n,
and
is a PGF module. Thus G is exact. Using a similar diagram, we can obtain
is a PGF almost isomorphism such that
. This leads to the conclusion
. Thus
.
Next, we demonstrate that
. If
, then the proof is trivial. Assume t is an integer. Then there exists a PGF almost isomorphism
with
. Let
. Then E is exact and bounded below, which implies that
is a PGF module. Consider the commutative diagram (Fig. 4) with exact rows and the exact middle column, then it is evident that the final column of the diagram is exact, which implies that
is a PGF module. Additionally, it is evident that
. Consequently, we can conclude that
.
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Fig. 4 The commutative diagram about E |
Now, consider the case where
. For any integer n, there is a PGF almost isomorphism
such that
, hence G is exact at n+1 and
is a PGF module. This means that G is an exact complex, and
is a PGF complex for any integer n. This leads to the conclusion that
.
The following result is an immediate consequence of Definition 3 and Theorem 2.
Theorem 3 Let X be a complex. Then
Take
in Ref. [18], we get the following definition.
Definition 5 Let X be a complex. Then for any complex Y and any integer n, the n-th relative cohomology group
is defined by the equality
where
is a special PGF precover of X.
As an immediate consequence of Ref. [18], we obtain the following result, which gives an equivalent characterization on PGF dimensions.
Corollary 1 Let X be a complex and n an integer. Then the following conditions are equivalent.
(1) 
(2)
for all
and any bounded complex Y such that all
and
are in
, where
;
(3)
for all
and any module Y in
;
(4)
and for any special PGF precover
of X, the module
is in
.
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All Figures
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Fig. 1 The definition of recollement |
| In the text | |
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Fig. 2 The recollement of PGF |
| In the text | |
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Fig. 3 The commutative diagram about G |
| In the text | |
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Fig. 4 The commutative diagram about E |
| In the text | |
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