When is the category of flat modules abelian?
Volume 147 / 1995
Fundamenta Mathematicae 147 (1995), 83-91
DOI: 10.4064/fm-147-1-83-91
Abstract
Let Fl(R) denote the category of flat right modules over an associative ring R. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for Fl(R) to be a Grothendieck category, in terms of properties of the ring R.