Conjectural extension of Bass' theorem for locally presentable abelian categories

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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