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This paper is the first one in a series of three dealing with the concept of injective stabilization of the tensor product and its applications. Its primary goal is to collect known facts and establish a basic operational calculus that will be used in the subsequent parts. This is done in greater generality than is necessary for the stated goal. Several results of independent interest are also established. They include, among other things, connections with satellites, an explicit construction of the stabilization of a finitely presented functor, various exactness properties of the injectively stable functors, a construction, from a functor and a short exact sequence, of a doubly-infinite exact sequence by splicing the injective stabilization of the functor and its derived functors. When specialized to the tensor product with a finitely presented module, the injective stabilization with coefficients in the ring is isomorphic to the 1-torsion functor. The Auslander-Reiten formula is extended to a more general formula, which holds for arbitrary (i.e., not necessarily finite) modules over arbitrary associative rings with identity. Weakening of the assumptions in the theorems of Eilenberg and Watts leads to characterizations of the requisite zeroth derived functors. The subsequent papers, provide applications of the developed techniques. Part II deals with new notions of torsion module and cotorsion module of a module. This is done for arbitrary modules over arbitrary rings. Part III introduces a new concept, called the asymptotic stabilization of the tensor product. The result is closely related to different variants of stable homology (these are generalizations of Tate homology to arbitrary rings). A comparison transformation from Vogel homology to the asymptotic stabilization of the tensor product is constructed and shown to be epic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A semi-localization of a category is a full reflective subcategory with the property that the reflector is semi-left-exact. There are many interesting examples of semi-localizations, as for instance any torsion-free subcategory of a semi-abelian category. By specializing a result due to S. Mantovani, we first characterize the categories which are semi-localizations of exact Mal'tsev categories. We then prove a new characterization of protomodular categories in terms of binary relations, allowing us to obtain an abstract characterization of the semi-localizations of exact protomodular categories. This result is very useful to study the (hereditarily)-torsion-free subcategories of semi-abelian categories. Some examples are considered in detail in the categories of groups, crossed modules, commutative rings and topological groups. We finally explain how these results extend the corresponding ones obtained in the abelian context by W. Rump. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we introduce and investigate the latticial counterpart of the module-theoretical concept of preradical. Applications are given to Grothendieck categories and module categories equipped with hereditary torsion theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Bijective correspondences are established between endofinite injective left modules, endofinite flat right modules, finite collections of minimal noetherian prime ideals, normalized rank functions on left ideals and characters. Endofinite flat modules are identified as flat covers of modules associated to a minimal noetherian prime ideal, while endofinite flat injectives are characterized by localizations with a semiprimary QF-3 quotient ring. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]