In this paper, we introduce and study left (right) [Formula: see text]-semihereditary rings over any associative ring, and these rings are exactly [Formula: see text]-semihereditary rings defined by Mahdou and Tamekkante provided that [Formula: see text] is a commutative ring. Some new characterizations of left [Formula: see text]-semihereditary rings are given. Applications go in three directions. The first is to give a sufficient condition when a finitely presented right [Formula: see text]-module is Gorenstein flat if and only if it is Gorenstein projective provided that [Formula: see text] is left coherent. The second is to investigate the relationships between Gorenstein flat modules and direct limits of finitely presented Gorenstein projective modules. The third is to obtain some new characterizations of semihereditary rings, [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] rings and [Formula: see text] rings.
Gorenstein-projective and semi-Gorenstein-projective modules