Conjectural extension of Bass' theorem for locally presentable abelian categories

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Let B\mathsf B be a locally presentable abelian category with a projective generator PP. Let Bproj⁡\mathsf B_{\operatorname{proj}} denote the class of projective objects in B\mathsf B. Main conjecture. The following conditions are equivalent: (1) Bproj⁡\mathsf B_{\operatorname{proj}} is covering in B\mathsf B; (2) every direct limit of projective objects has a projective cover in B\mathsf B; (3) every countable direct limit of copies of PP has a projective cover in B\mathsf B; (4) every countable direct limit of copies of PP is projective in B\mathsf B; and (5) Bproj⁡\mathsf B_{\operatorname{proj}} is closed under direct limits in B\mathsf B. The implications (1) ⟹\Longrightarrow (2) ⟹\Longrightarrow (3), (5) ⟹\Longrightarrow (4) ⟹\Longrightarrow (3), and (5) ⟹\Longrightarrow (1) are known or immediate, while the remaining displayed implications are stated to be unknown. The conjecture extends Bass' theorem from module categories to locally presentable abelian categories; some equivalences are known for categories of contramodules over topological rings.

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Silvana Bazzoni and Leonid Positselski, “Covers and direct limits: a contramodule-based approach”, arXiv:1907.05537 (2021).

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