## Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

### Complete Cotorsion Pairs in Exact Categories

Zhi-Wei Li

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#### Abstract

We generalize a theorem of Saorín-Štovíček on complete cotorsion pairs in exact categories. Our proof is based on a generalized small object argument due to Chorny. As a consequence, we cover some examples which are not covered by the result of Saorín-Štovíček.

#### Article information

Source
Taiwanese J. Math., Advance publication (2019), 12 pages.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 8 May 2019

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1557280827

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.11650/tjm/190503

#### Citation

Li, Zhi-Wei. Complete Cotorsion Pairs in Exact Categories. Taiwanese J. Math., advance publication, 8 May 2019. doi:10.11650/tjm/190503. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1557280827

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