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This paper studies the existence and properties of a torsion-free cover with respect to a faithful hereditary torsion theory (T, F) of modules over a ring with unity. A direct sum of a finite number of torsion-free covers of modules is the torsion-free cover of the direct sum of the modules. The concept of aT-near homomorphism, which generalizes Enochs’ definition of a neat submodule, is introduced and studied. This allows the generalization of a result of Enochs on liftings of homomorphisms. Hereditary torsion theories for which every module has a torsion-free cover are called universally covering. If the inclusion map ofR into the appropriate quotient ringQ is a left localization in the sense of Silver, the problem of the existence of universally-covering torsion theories can be reduced to the caseR=Q. As a consequence, many sufficient conditions for a hereditary torsion theory to be universally covering are obtained. For a universally-covering hereditary torsion theory (T, F), the following conditions are equivalent: (1) the product ofF-neat homomorphisms is alwaysT-neat; (2) the product of torsion-free covers is alwaysT-neat; (3) every nonzero module inT has a nonzero socle.
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Golan, J.S., Teply, M.L. Torsion-free covers. Israel J. Math. 15, 237–256 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02787570
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