Gorenstein projective precovers and finitely presented modules

Abstract: The existence of the Gorenstein projective precovers over arbitrary rings is an open question. It is known that if the ring has finite Gorenstein global dimension, then every module has a Gorenstein projective precover. We prove here a "reduction" property - we show that, over any ring, it suffices to consider finitely presented modules: if there exists a nonnegative integer $n$ such that every finitely presented module has Gorenstein projective dimension $\le n$, then the class of Gorenstein projective modules is special precovering.