Commutative rings and modules that are Nil*-coherent or special Nil*-coherent

Abstract

Recently, Xiang and Ouyang defined a (commutative unital) ring [Formula: see text] to be Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent if each finitely generated ideal of [Formula: see text] that is contained in Nil[Formula: see text] is a finitely presented [Formula: see text]-module. We define and study Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent modules and special Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent modules over any ring. These properties are characterized and their basic properties are established. Any coherent ring is a special Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent ring and any special Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent ring is a Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent ring, but neither of these statements has a valid converse. Any reduced ring is a special Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent ring (regardless of whether it is coherent). Several examples of Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent rings that are not special Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent rings are obtained as byproducts of our study of the transfer of the Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent and the special Nil[Formula: see text]-coherent properties to trivial ring extensions and amalgamated algebras.