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A Module is Flat if and Only if its Character Module is Injective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. Lambek*
Affiliation:
McGill University and Canadian Mathematical Congress Summer Institute
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The purpose of this expository note is to establish the fact mentioned in the title. While this is not difficult and requires no new ideas, it seems worth doing, as such a simple characterization does not appear explicitly in a recent treatise on the subject of flat modules [Bourbaki XXVII, Chapter 1].

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1964

References

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