Homological properties of modules over semigroup algebras

Let S be a semigroup. In this paper we investigate the injectivity of ?¹(S) as a Banach right module over ?¹(S). For weakly cancellative S this is the same as studying the flatness of the predual left module c₀(S). For such semigroups S, we also investigate the projectivity of c₀(S). We prove that for many semigroups S for which the Banach algebra ?¹(S) is non-amenable, the ?¹(S)-module ?¹(S) is not injective. The main result about the projectivity of c₀(S) states that for a weakly cancellative inverse semigroup S, c₀(S) is projective if and only if S is finite.