Cotorsion pairs and Enochs Conjecture for object ideals

TL;DR

This paper establishes a connection between object ideals and cotorsion pairs in exact categories, providing conditions under which ideal cotorsion pairs are perfect or complete, and relates Enochs Conjecture to object ideals.

Contribution

It characterizes perfect and complete ideal cotorsion pairs via object-level cotorsion pairs and confirms Enochs Conjecture for object ideals in module categories.

Findings

Characterization of perfect ideal cotorsion pairs via object cotorsion pairs

Equivalence of Enochs Conjecture for object ideals and their objects

Applications to projective morphisms and ideal cotorsion pairs

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{I}$ and $\mathcal{J}$ be object ideals in an exact category $(\mathcal{A}; \mathcal{E})$. It is proved that $(\mathcal{I},\mathcal{J})$ is a perfect ideal cotorsion pair if and only if $({\rm Ob}(\mathcal{I}),{\rm Ob}(\mathcal{J}))$ is a perfect cotorsion pair, where ${\rm Ob}(\mathcal{I})$ and ${\rm Ob}(\mathcal{J})$ is the objects of $\mathcal{I}$ and $\mathcal{J}$, respectively. If in addition $(\mathcal{A}; \mathcal{E})$ has enough projective objects and injective objects, and $\mathcal{J}$ is enveloping, then $(\mathcal{I},\mathcal{J})$ is a complete ideal cotorsion pair if and only if $({\rm Ob}(\mathcal{I}),{\rm Ob}(\mathcal{J}))$ is a complete cotorsion pair. This gives a partial answer to the question posed by Fu, Guil Asensio, Herzog and Torrecillas. Moreover, for any object ideal $\mathcal{I}$ in the category of left $R$-modules, it is proved that $\mathcal{I}$ satisfies Enochs Conjecture if and only if ${\rm Ob}(\mathcal{I})$ satisfies Enochs Conjecture. Applications are given to projective morphisms and ideal cotorsion pairs $(\mathcal{I},\mathcal{J})$ of object ideals under certain conditions.