Rings Characterized by a Class of Modules

ABSTRACT

Let ? be a class of right R-modules. The notions of ?-injectivity and ?-flatness are used to investigate right ?-Noetherian rings, right ?-hereditary rings, and right ?-coherent rings. For an almost excellent extension S ≥ R, if either ring is the above-mentioned ring, so is the other. Specializing the class ?, some known results can be obtained and extended as corollaries.