Flat module

Layer 0 — Mathematicsin the homological-algebra subtree

An R-module M is flat iff the tensor functor −⊗ᵣM preserves short exact sequences (equivalently, Tor₁^R(−, M) vanishes). Over ℤ: flat ⇔ torsion-free (Lazard: flat ⇔ filtered colimit of free modules).

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