Abstract
Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring with unity and $M$ be a finitely generated $R$-module. It is know that if each finitely generated $R$-module $N$ satisfies the condition that the $R$-module $\mbox{Ext}^{i}_R(M,N)$ is the zero module for every integer $i>0$, then $M$ is projective. A question that arises is the following: if such condition holds at least for $N=R$ and $N=M$, is it …