Homological Aspects of the Dual Auslander Transpose

As a dual of the Auslander transpose of modules, we introduce and study the cotranspose of modules with respect to a semidualizing module $C$. Then using it we introduce $n$-$C$-cotorsionfree modules, and show that $n$-$C$-cotorsionfree modules possess many dual properties of $n$-torsionfree modules. In particular, we show that $n$-$C$-cotorsionfree modules are useful in characterizing the Bass class and investigating the approximation theory for modules. Moreover, we study $n$-cotorsionfree modules over artin algebras and answer negatively an open question of Huang and Huang posed in 2012.