It is now well known that the conditions used by Auslander to define the Gorenstein projective modules on Noetherian rings are independent. Recently, Ringel and Zhang adopted a new approach in investigating Auslander’s conditions. Instead of looking for examples, they investigated rings on which certain implications between Auslander’s conditions hold. In this paper, we investigate the relative counterpart of Auslander’s conditions. So, we extend Ringel and Zhang’s work and introduce other concepts. Namely, for a semidualizing module [Formula: see text], we introduce weakly [Formula: see text]-Gorenstein and partially [Formula: see text]-Gorenstein rings as rings representing relations between the relative counterpart of Auslander’s conditions. Moreover, we introduce a relative notion of the well-known Frobenius category. We show how useful are [Formula: see text]-Frobenius categories in characterizing weakly [Formula: see text]-Gorenstein and partially [Formula: see text]-Gorenstein rings.
DING PROJECTIVE MODULES WITH RESPECT TO A SEMIDUALIZING MODULE
