A note on torsion modules with pure embeddings

Abstract: We study Martsinkovsky-Russell torsion modules [MaRu20] with pure embeddings as an abstract elementary class. We give a model-theoretic characterization of the pure-injective and the $\Sigma$-pure-injective modules relative to the class of torsion modules assuming that the torsion submodule is a pure submodule. Our characterization of relative $\Sigma$-pure-injective modules strictly extends the classical charactetization of [GrJe76] and [Zim, 3.6]. We study the limit models of the class and determine when the class is superstable assuming that the torsion submodule is a pure submodule. As a corollary, we show that the class of torsion abelian groups with pure embeddings is strictly stable, i.e., stable not superstable.