Diagonal tensor algebra and naive liftings

The notion of naive lifting of DG modules was introduced by the authors in [16,17] for the purpose of studying problems in homological commutative algebra that involve self-vanishing of Ext. Our goal in this paper is to deeply study the naive lifting property using the tensor algebra of the shift of the diagonal ideal (or, diagonal tensor algebra, as is phrased in the title of this paper). Our main result provides several characterizations of naive liftability of DG modules under certain Ext vanishing conditions. As an application, we affirmatively answer [19, Question 4.10] under the same assumptions.