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Keywords:
hereditary torsion theory; Goldie’s torsion theory; non-singular ring; precover class; cover class; torsionfree covers; lattices of torsion theories
Summary:
Recently, Rim and Teply , using the notion of $\tau$-exact modules, found a necessary condition for the existence of $\tau$-torsionfree covers with respect to a given hereditary torsion theory $\tau$ for the category $R$-mod of all unitary left $R$-modules over an associative ring $R$ with identity. Some relations between $\tau$-torsionfree and $\tau$-exact covers have been investigated in . The purpose of this note is to show that if $\sigma = (\mathcal T_{\sigma },\mathcal F_{\sigma })$ is Goldie’s torsion theory and $\mathcal F_{\sigma }$ is a precover class, then $\mathcal F_{\tau }$ is a precover class whenever $\tau \ge \sigma$. Further, it is shown that $\mathcal F_{\sigma }$ is a cover class if and only if $\sigma$ is of finite type and, in the case of non-singular rings, this is equivalent to the fact that $\mathcal F_{\tau }$ is a cover class for all hereditary torsion theories $\tau \ge \sigma$.
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