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Finite modules, finitely presented modules and Mittag-Leffler modules are characterized by their behaviour by tensoring with direct products of modules. In this paper, we study and characterize the functors of modules that preserve direct products.
Reflexive functors of modules naturally appear in Algebraic Geometry, mainly in the theory of linear representations of group schemes, and in "duality theories". In this paper we study and determine reflexive functors and we give many properties of reflexive functors.
A functor of sets $\mathbb X$ over the category of $K$-commutative algebras is said to be an affine functor if its functor of functions, $\mathbb A_{\mathbb X}$, is reflexive and $\mathbb X=\Spec \mathbb A_{\mathbb X}$. We prove that affine functors are equal to a direct limit of affine schemes and that affine schemes, formal schemes, the completion of affine schemes along a closed subscheme, etc., are affine functors. Endowing an affine functor $\mathbb X$ with a functor of monoids structure is equivalent to endowing $\mathbb A_{\mathbb X}$ with a functor of bialgebras structure. If $\mathbb G$ is an affine functor of monoids, then $\mathbb A_{\mathbb G}^*$ is the enveloping functor of algebras of $\mathbb G$ and the category of $\mathbb G$-modules is equivalent to the category of $\mathbb A_{\mathbb G}^*$-modules. Applications of these results include Cartier duality, neutral Tannakian duality for affine group schemes, the equivalence between formal groups and Lie algebras in characteristic zero, etc.