Let $R$ be an associative ring with identity and $ℱ$ a class of $R$-modules. In this article: we first give a detailed treatment of Cartan-Eilenberg $ℱ$ complexes and extend the basic properties of the class $ℱ$ to the class $\mathrm{CE}(ℱ$). Secondly, we study and give some equivalent characterizations of Cartan-Eilenberg projective, injective and flat complexes which are similar to projective, injective and flat modules, respectively. As applications, we characterize some classical rings in terms of these complexes,...

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 $𝒜$ and $ℬ$ be abelian categories with enough projective and injective objects, and $T:𝒜\to ℬ$ a left exact additive functor. Then one has a comma category $\left(ℬ\downarrow T\right)$. It is shown that if $T:𝒜\to ℬ$ is $𝒳$-exact, then ${(}^{\perp }𝒳,𝒳)$ is a (hereditary) cotorsion pair in $𝒜$ and ${(}^{\perp }𝒴,𝒴)$) is a (hereditary) cotorsion pair in $ℬ$ if and only if $\left(\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{{}^{\perp }𝒳}{{}^{\perp }𝒴}\right)\right),\langle 𝐡(𝒳,𝒴)\rangle )$ is a (hereditary) cotorsion pair in $\left(ℬ\downarrow T\right)$ and $𝒳$ and $𝒴$ are closed under extensions. Furthermore, we characterize when special preenveloping classes in abelian categories $𝒜$ and $ℬ$ can induce special preenveloping classes...