It is well-known that the generalized Auslander-Reiten condition (GARC) and the symmetric Auslander condition (SAC) are equivalent, and (GARC) implies that the Auslander-Reiten condition (ARC). In this paper we explore (SAC) along with the several canonical change of rings \(R \rightarrow S\) . First, we prove the equivalence of (SAC) for R and R/xR, where x is a non-zerodivisor on R, and the equivalence of (SAC) and (SACC) for rings with positive depth, where (SACC) is the symmetric Auslander condition for modules with constant rank. The latter assertion affirmatively answers a question posed by Celikbas and Takahashi. Secondly, for a ring homomorphism \(R \rightarrow S\) , we prove that if S satisfies (SAC) (resp. (ARC)), then R also satisfies (SAC) (resp. (ARC)) if the flat dimension of S over R is finite. We also prove that (SAC) holds for R implies that (SAC) holds for S when R is Gorenstein and \(S=R/Q^\ell \) , where Q is generated by a regular sequence of R and the length of the sequence is at least \(\ell \) . This is a consequence of more general results about Ulrich ideals proved in this paper. Applying these results to determinantal rings and numerical semigroup rings, we provide new classes of rings satisfying (SAC). A relation between (SAC) and an invariant related to the finitistic extension degree is also explored.
