Estimates of global dimension

In this note we show that for a *ⁿ-module, in particular, an almost n-tilting module, P over a ring R with A = End_R P such that P _A has finite flat dimension, the upper bound of the global dimension of A can be estimated by the global dimension of R and hence generalize the corresponding results in tilting theory and the ones in the theory of *-modules. As an application, we show that for a finitely generated projective module over a VN regular ring R, the global dimension of its endomorphism ring is not more than the global dimension of R.