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Purity, algebraic compactness, direct sum decompositions, and representation type

Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann
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This survey article is devoted to the notions of purity, algebraic and $Σ$-algebraic compactness, direct sum decompositions, and representation type in the category of modules over a ring. It begins with basic definitions, a brief history, and a discussion of global decomposition problems going back to work of Köthe and Cohen-Kaplansky; these are strongly tied to algebraic compactness. Characterisations of ($Σ$-)algebraically compact modules are presented, as well as the functorial underpinnings on which they are based. In particular, product-compatible functors, matrix functors and $p$-functors are discussed. The latter part of the article is devoted to rings of vanishing left pure global dimension, product completeness, endofiniteness, the pure semisimplicity problem and its connection with a strong Artin problem on division ring extensions.

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Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann. 2014-07-09. Purity, algebraic compactness, direct sum decompositions, and representation type. https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2360

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