Flat and Stably Flat Modules

We study Kropholler's generalisation of Lazard's criterion for a module to be flat. The context is complete cohomology and modules of type (FP)_∞. Let G be a group in the class ₁ of groups which act on a finite dimensional contractible cell complex with finite stabilisers and let R be a strongly G-graded algebra. We provide a characterisation of the stably flat R-modules under the assumption that R₁ is coherent of finite global dimension.