English

Applications of the Defect of a Finitely Presented Functor

Category Theory 2016-06-02 v3 Representation Theory

Abstract

For an abelian category A\mathcal{A}, the defect sequence 0F0Fφ(w(F),  )F100\longrightarrow F_0\longrightarrow F\overset{\varphi}{\longrightarrow} \big(w(F),\hspace{0.05cm}\underline{\ \ }\hspace{0.1cm} \big)\longrightarrow F_1\longrightarrow 0 of a finitely presented functor is used to establish the CoYoneda Lemma. An application of this result is the fp\textsf{fp}-dual formula which states that for any covariant finitely presented functor FF, F(  ,w(F))F^*\cong \big(\hspace{0.05cm}\underline{\ \ }\hspace{0.1cm} , w(F)\big). The defect sequence is shown to be isomorphic to both the double dual sequence 0Ext1(TrF,Hom)FFExt2(TrF,Hom)00\longrightarrow \textsf{Ext}^1(\textsf{Tr} F,\textsf{Hom})\longrightarrow F\longrightarrow F^{**}\longrightarrow \textsf{Ext}^2(\textsf{Tr} F,\textsf{Hom})\longrightarrow 0 and the injective stabilization sequence 0FFR0FF~00\longrightarrow \overline{F}\longrightarrow F\longrightarrow R^0F\longrightarrow \tilde F\longrightarrow 0 establishing the fp\textsf{fp}-injective stabilization formula FExt1(TrF,Hom)\overline{F}\cong \textsf{Ext}^1(\textsf{Tr} F,\textsf{Hom}) for any finitely presented functor FF. The injectives of fp(Mod(R),Ab)\textsf{fp}(\textsf{Mod}(R),\textsf{Ab}) are used to compute the left derived functors Lk(  )L^k(\hspace{0.05cm}\underline{\ \ }\hspace{0.1cm} )^*. These functors are shown to detect certain short exact sequences.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1211.0054,
  title  = {Applications of the Defect of a Finitely Presented Functor},
  author = {Jeremy Russell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0054},
  year   = {2016}
}