Relation between balanced pairs and TTF triples

Abstract

Let A be a complete and cocomplete abelian category with the additional assumption that any direct sum and product of short exact sequences are exact. We explore the relation between balanced pairs and TTF triples in A. The main results are: (1) every balanced pair in A induces a TTF triple; (2) if A has projective covers and injective envelopes, then every TTF triple in A gives rise to a balanced pair, and hence there is a bijection between the equivalence classes of balanced pairs and TTF triples in A; (3) a balanced pair in A is quasi admissible if and only if its induced TTF triple is centrally splitting. Our first application of these results provide abundant rings over which every balanced pair is quasi admissible, including local rings, commutative semiperfect rings, and commutative Noetherian rings. Another application is the classification of equivalence classes of cohereditary balanced pairs over arbitrary rings. We also present counterexamples to [15, Open questions 3 and 5]. Finally, we prove that the answers to [15, Open questions 2 and 4] are positive for coherent rings with weak global dimension at most one.