The Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity reg(M) is one of the most important invariants of a finitely generated graded module M over a polynomial ring R. For instance, it measures the amount of computational resources that working with M requires. In general one knows that the regularity of a module can be doubly exponential in the degrees of the minimal generators and in the number of the variables. On the other hand, in many situations one has or one conjectures a much better behavior. One may ask,...

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 π: G → H is called a cellular cover over H if π induces an isomorphism $\pi ⁎:Ho{m}_R(G,G)\cong Ho{m}_R(G,H)$, where π⁎(φ) = πφ for each $\phi \in Ho{m}_R(G,G)$ (where maps are acting on the left). On the one hand,...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with unit. We give some criterions for determining when a direct sum of two CF-modules over $R$ is a CF-module. When $R$ is local, we characterize the CF-modules over $R$ whose tensor product is a CF-module.

Let $R$ be a commutative ring and $𝒞$ a semidualizing $R$-module. We investigate the relations between $𝒞$-flat modules and $𝒞$-FP-injective modules and use these modules and their character modules to characterize some rings, including artinian, noetherian and coherent rings.

Let R be a commutative multiplication ring and let N be a non-zero finitely generated multiplication R-module. We characterize certain prime submodules of N. Also, we show that N is Cohen-Macaulay whenever R is Noetherian.

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring, $I$ an ideal of $R$. Let $t\in {\mathbb{N}}_0$ be an integer and $M$ an $R$-module such that ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^i(R/I,M)$ is minimax for all $i\le t+1$. We prove that if $H_I^i\left(M\right)$ is ${\mathrm{FD}}_{\le 1}$ (or weakly Laskerian) for all $i<t$, then the $R$-modules $H_I^i\left(M\right)$ are $I$-cominimax for all $i<t$ and ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^i(R/I,H_I^t\left(M\right))$ is minimax for $i=0,1$. Let $N$ be a finitely generated $R$-module. We prove that ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^j(N,H_I^i\left(M\right))$ and ${\mathrm{Tor}}_j^R(N,H_I^i\left(M\right))$ are $I$-cominimax for all $i$ and $j$ whenever $M$ is minimax and $H_I^i\left(M\right)$ is ${\mathrm{FD}}_{\le 1}$ (or weakly Laskerian) for all $i$.

We provide some characterizations of rings $R$ for which every (finitely generated) module belonging to a class $𝒞$ of $R$-modules is a direct sum of cyclic submodules. We focus on the cases, where the class $𝒞$ is one of the following classes of modules: semiartinian modules, semi-V-modules, V-modules, coperfect modules and locally supplemented modules.