Cosilting complexes and AIR-cotilting modules

Abstract: We introduce and study the new concepts of cosilting complexes, cosilting modules and AIR-cotilting modules. We prove that the three concepts AIR-cotilting modules, cosilting modules and quasi-cotilting modules coincide with each other, in contrast with the dual fact that AIR-tilting modules, silting modules and quasi-tilting modules are different. Further, we show that there are bijections between the following four classes (1) equivalent classes of AIR-cotilting (resp., cosilting, quasi-cotilting) modules, (2) equivalent classes of 2-term cosilting complexes, (3) torsion-free cover classes and (4) torsion-free special precover classes. We also extend a classical result of Auslander and Reiten on the correspondence between certain contravariantly finite subcategories and cotilting modules to the case of cosilting complexes.