We are interested in characterising the commutative rings for which a 1-tilting cotorsion pair
(
A
,
T
)
(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{T})
provides for covers, that is when the class 𝒜 is a covering class.
We use Hrbek’s bijective correspondence between the 1-tilting cotorsion pairs over a commutative ring 𝑅 and the faithful finitely generated Gabriel topologies on 𝑅.
Moreover, we use results of Bazzoni–Positselski, in particular a generalisation of Matlis equivalence and their characterisation of covering classes for 1-tilting cotorsion pairs arising from flat injective ring epimorphisms.
Explicitly, if 𝒢 is the Gabriel topology associated to the 1-tilting cotorsion pair
(
A
,
T
)
(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{T})
, and
R
G
R_{\mathcal{G}}
is the ring of quotients with respect to 𝒢, we show that if 𝒜 is covering, then 𝒢 is a perfect localisation (in Stenström’s sense [B. Stenström, Rings of Quotients, Springer, New York, 1975]) and the localisation
R
G
R_{\mathcal{G}}
has projective dimension at most one as an 𝑅-module.
Moreover, we show that 𝒜 is covering if and only if both the localisation
R
G
R_{\mathcal{G}}
and the quotient rings
R
/
J
R/J
are perfect rings for every
J
∈
G
J\in\mathcal{G}
.
Rings satisfying the latter two conditions are called 𝒢-almost perfect.