Finiteness of homological dimensions of Ext modules

Abstract

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian local ring and let $M$ and $N$ be nonzero finitely generated $R$-modules. In this paper, we investigate how the finiteness of the homological dimension of Ext modules between $M$ and $N$ affects that of $M$ and $N$. One of our main result states that if $\operatorname{Ext}^i_R(M,N)$ has finite projective dimension for any $0\le i\le \operatorname{Rfd}_R M$, where $\operatorname{Rfd}_R M$ is the (large) restricted flat dimension of $M$, then $M$ has finite projective or injective dimension if and only if $N$ does.