Flat model structures and Gorenstein objects in functor categories

Abstract

We construct a flat model structure on the category ${_{\mathcal {Q},\,R}\mathsf {Mod}}$ of additive functors from a small preadditive category $\mathcal {Q}$ satisfying certain conditions to the module category ${_{R}\mathsf {Mod}}$ over an associative ring $R$, whose homotopy category is the $\mathcal {Q}$-shaped derived category introduced by Holm and Jørgensen. Moreover, we prove that for an arbitrary associative ring $R$, an object in ${_{\mathcal {Q},\,R}\mathsf {Mod}}$ is Gorenstein projective (resp., Gorenstein injective, Gorenstein flat, projective coresolving Gorenstein flat) if and only if so is its value on each object of $\mathcal {Q}$, and hence improve a result by Dell'Ambrogio, Stevenson and Šťovíček.