On liftable and weakly liftable modules

Abstract

Let $T$ be a Noetherian ring and $f$ a nonzerodivisor on $T$. We study concrete necessary and sufficient conditions for a module over $R=T/(f)$ to be weakly liftable to $T$, in the sense of Auslander, Ding and Solberg. We focus on cyclic modules and get various positive and negative results on the lifting and weak lifting problems. For a module over $T$ we define the loci for certain properties: liftable, weakly liftable, having finite projective dimension and study their relationships.