Peak reductions and waist reflection functors
In this paper we use the fact that the rings of integer matrices have the power-substitution property in order to obtain a power-cancellation property for homotopy types of CW-complexes with one cell in dimensions 0 and 4n and a finite number of cells in dimension 2n.
It is a well-known fact that modules over a commutative ring in general cannot be classified, and it is also well-known that we have to impose severe restrictions on either the ring or on the class of modules to solve this problem. One of the restrictions on the modules comes from freeness assumptions which have been intensively studied in recent decades. Two interesting, distinct but typical examples are the papers by Blass [1] and Eklof [8], both jointly with Shelah. In the first case the authors...
Module is said to be small if it is not a union of strictly increasing infinite countable chain of submodules. We show that the class of all small modules over self-injective purely infinite ring is closed under direct products whenever there exists no strongly inaccessible cardinal.