Questions tagged [abelian-categories]
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Is taking Freyd envelopes adjoint to taking stable module categories?
Let $T$ be an (idempotent-complete) triangulated category. Then the Freyd envelope $mod(T)$ is an abelian category, the universal recipient of a homological functor $T \to mod(T)$. The Freyd envelope ...
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Reference request regarding faithfully exact functors between abelian categories
I am looking for a reference for the following result (or any subresult) in any book or notes:
Lemma. Let $F:\mathcal{A}\to\mathcal{B}$ be an exact functor between abelian categories. The following ...
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Dual objects in an abelian monoidal category
Let $(\mathcal{M},\otimes)$ be a monoidal category that is also abelian, and assume that $\otimes$ is bilinear with respect to the biproduct. Let $X$ and $Y$ be two objects that admit (left) duals ${}^...
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Is there a way to “derive” a (non-exact) functor which preserves images?
Let $F : \mathcal A \to \mathcal B$ be an additive functor between abelian categories. If $F$ is left exact, then under certain conditions $F$ admits right derived functors which “measure” its failure ...
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Kernels and cokernels in a quotient of an abelian category
I am trying to understand the construction of the quotient of an abelian category called the Serre quotient or Gabriel quotient. From the description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Why are Gabriel categories closed under localization?
Let $\mathcal K$ be a Grothendieck category. Recall the Gabriel filtration $0 \subseteq \mathcal K_1 \subseteq \cdots \mathcal K$ of localizing subcategories, where $\mathcal K_{\alpha+1}$ is ...
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Example of a Grothendieck category which is not Gabriel?
Following Gabriel, for $\mathcal C$ a Grothendieck category, set $\mathcal T(\mathcal C)$ to be the localizing subcategory generated by the objects of finite length, and $\mathcal C' = \mathcal C / \...
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Left duals and right duals are also isomorphic in a semisimple category
In the n-Lab page
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/rigid+monoidal+category
it is written that
Left duals and right duals are also isomorphic in a semisimple
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For a left dual semisimplicity ...
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Comparing stabilization of stable category modulo injectives and a Verdier localization
Let $\mathcal A$ be an abelian category with enough injectives. Let $\mathcal I$ be the collection of injective objects. Let $\mathcal A/\mathcal I$ be the quotient category whose objects are same as ...
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Is uniform dimension monotonic in quotients when there is a unique indecomposable injective?
The notion of uniform or Goldie dimension is something I’ve only seen discussed for categories of modules, but I believe the theory works the same way in any Grothendieck category $\mathcal C$. Recall ...
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How does the behaviour of a hyperderived functor of many variables change if you use $\prod$-totalisation instead of $\oplus$-totalisation?
$\newcommand{\tot}{\operatorname{Tot}}\newcommand{\A}{\mathscr{A}}\newcommand{\L}{\mathbb{L}}\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}$Say $T$ is is a functor $\A_1\times\A_2\times\cdots\times\A_n\to\A$ of Abelian ...
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What exactly is a Tannakian subcategory?
I've searched all the standard references (Deligne--Milne, Saavedra-Rivano) and cannot find a definition of Tannakian subcategory. What I find is many authors who discuss the Tannakian subcategory ...
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What conditions on an Abelian category allow members of a direct sum to be determined entirely by their components?
EDIT: In comments, with thanks to Maxime Ramzi, this question has a good answer in that what I want to be true is true when $\mathscr{A}$ satisfies axiom $\mathsf{AB}5$, that $\mathscr{A}$ is ...
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In an abelian category with no nontrivial Serre subcategories, does every short exact sequence split?
Question: Let $\mathcal A$ be an abelian category. Suppose that the only Serre subcategories of $\mathcal A$ are the zero category and $\mathcal A$ itself. Does it follow that every short exact ...
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What are the epis, monos, and extensions in the Freyd Envelope of a triangulated category?
Let $\mathcal T$ be a triangulated category (or homotopy category of a stable $\infty$-category).
Recall that the Freyd envelope of $\mathcal T$ is an abelian category $\mathcal A$ which is ...
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A question about rigid objects in monoidal categories
Let $(\mathcal{A},\otimes,1_{\mathcal{A}})$ be a monoidal category, and let $M$ be a rigid object of $M$, with left and right dual respectively denoted by
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Projective objects in chain complexes of an abelian category: Further question
Yes, I see there are other Q&A's on this, for instance here: Projective objects in the category of chain complexes
I am wondering why a level-wise projective chain complex $P$ which is split ...
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An abelian category with a full embedding from topological abelian groups
I know this is a very vague question, but I can't think of a better question to ask.
Consider the category $\mathscr{C}$ of pro-sets created by diagrams containing only injections. The objects $A: \...
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Description of the canonical equivalence between Adelman's free abelian category and Freyd's free abelian category on an additive category?
Let $\mathcal A$ be an additive category. Then there is a free abelian category $F(\mathcal A)$ on $\mathcal A$. I'm aware of two constructions in the literature, and I'd like to relate them.
The ...
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Proving that the functor induced by some inclusion functor has a left adjoint
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category and $\mathcal{B}\subseteq \operatorname{Proj}(\mathcal{A})$ be a full additive subcategory of $\mathcal{A}$. We define the full subcategory $\mathcal{B(A)}$ of ...
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Abelian categories satisfying AB5*
I could name on the spot a bunch of abelian categories satisfying AB5 but I cannot think of any that satisfies AB5*. That is, it should have all limits and the cofiltered limits are exact. Is there ...
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Does a functor preserving injectives also preserve K-injective complexes?
Let $F:A\to B$ be an exact functor of Grothendieck abelian categories. If $F$ preserves injective objects, then does the exact functor $F:K(A)\to K(B)$ preserves K-injective complexes?
For example, ...
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Can higher G-theory of Noetherian schemes be computed by derived categories?
Recently I learned from the Stacks project that for every abelian category ${\mathcal A}$, there is a natural isomorphism $K_0({\mathcal A})\cong K_0(D^{b}(\mathcal A))$.
When we set $\mathcal A$ to ...
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Is the subcategory of strict morphisms abelian?
Let $A$ be an additive category with kernels and cokernels. A morphism $f$ is called strict if the natural morphism from the coimage to the image is an isomorphism.
In Schneiders: Quasi-abelian ...
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Can we define $\operatorname{Ext}$ groups in the category of short exact sequences?
Let $\mathcal A$ be an Abelian category. We can assume it has enough injectives. Let $\operatorname{SES}_{\mathcal A}$ denote the category, of which objects are short exact sequences in $\mathcal A$, ...
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Non-cofiltered derived limits
As far as I know, the inverse limit and its derived functors can be defined even in case we are dealing with a functor $F: I \to A$ from a category $I$ that is not cofiltered. I would content myself ...
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Abelian categories that are not monoidal
Forgive me if this turns out to be a naive question. I'm quite convinced that not all abelian categories admit (symmetric?) monoidal structure (of course, with the tensor product being additive, ...
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Can a category be enriched over abelian groups in more than one way?
An $\mathbf{Ab}$-category is a category enriched over the category of abelian groups. What is an example of a category that can be enriched over abelian groups in more than one way?
An abelian ...
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Is every filtration on an abelian category strict?
It's well-known that the category of filtered objects in an abelian category is generally not an abelian category. One must generally add extra structure to ensure that all morphisms are strict for ...
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Is the category of chain complexes a reflexive or coreflexive subcategory of the category of functors?
Let $A$ be an abelian category (you can assume additional conditions for its goodness). Let $\mathrm{Seq}(A) = \mathrm{Func}(\mathbb{Z}, A)$, where $\mathbb{Z}$ is the standard order category on ...
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Does every monoidal abelian category admit an exact, lax monoidal functor to abelian groups?
Let $\mathcal A$ be a (small) non-zero abelian category equipped with a monoidal structure $\otimes$ which is right-exact in each variable. (Maybe feel free to assume more if that makes things easier -...
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Sufficient condition for right exact functor to be a left adjoint
Disclaimer: I first tried to ask this question on stackexchange https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4577320/sufficient-conditions-for-a-right-exact-functor-to-be-a-left-adjoint but I did not get ...
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Covering by generators
Let $\mathcal A$ be an abelian category which contains all colimits. Let $\mathcal P$ be a full subcategory of generating objects. You may assume them to be projective. Is it true that for any $X\in \...
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On image of map $\text{Ext}^1_R(X,F)\to \text{Ext}^1_R(X,G)$ induced by $R$-linear map of free modules $F\to G$ with entries in the maximal ideal
$\DeclareMathOperator\Ext{Ext}$Let $(R,\mathfrak m)$ be a Noetherian local ring. Let $F,G$ be finitely generated free $R$-modules and $f:F\to G$ be an $R$-linear map such that $f(F)\subseteq \mathfrak ...
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Vanishing of higher limits
Let $I$ be a directed set and let $X_I$ be a corresponding inverse system of, say, (complex) vector spaces or abelian groups (in my case in general not finite-dimensional, resp. not finitely generated)...
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How exotic can an infinite biproduct in an additive category be?
Let $C$ be a category with a zero object $0$, small products, and small coproducts. Let $(A_i)_{i \in I}$ be a (possibly infinite) list of objects. There is a canonical map $\amalg_{i \in I} A_i \to \...
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Why does the category of abelian groups satisfy the axiom AB6?
In his Tohoku article, Grothendieck says that the category $\mathbf{Ab}$ of abelian groups satisfies the axiom AB6, namely
"All small colimits exist in $\mathbf{Ab}$. Moreover for any index ...
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"Interesting" examples of exact abelian subcategories of R-Mod
A somewhat vague question: for which rings there exist "interesting" exact abelian subcategories of $R-\operatorname{Mod}$ that are closed with respect to products? Actually, I would like ...
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Derived Hom without injectives nor projectives
I am stuck with the following farce on derived Homs.
I have an abelian category $A$ and I showed that, given any two objects $X$ and $Y$ of $A$, the group of $1$fold extensions $\operatorname{Ext}^1_{...
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Deformation of (locally) ringed spaces and of their abelian categories of modules
I am interested in the general theory of deformations locally ringed spaces in the same language of the deformation theory of schemes/varieties that is already widely available. I am aware for example ...
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Do systems of objects over a Grothendieck category form a Grothendieck category?
Let $\mathscr C$ be a Grothendieck category and let $I$ be a small category (not a preadditive category, just a small category). Is the category $\mathscr C^I$ of systems of objects in $\mathscr C$ ...
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Does left-exactness imply semi-additivity?
Let $\mathcal C$ and $\mathcal D$ be pre-additive (enriched over the abelian groups) categories and $F : \mathcal C \Rightarrow \mathcal D$ a functor which is left-exact in the sense that it preserves ...
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Is there something similar to Lawvere-Tierney topologies for Abelian categories?
Lawvere-Tierney topologies generalize the notion of local operators on a Topos from Sheaf toposes over a Grothendieck site to arbitrary Toposes.
However, while the special case of Sheaves of sets or ...
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Pullback and pseudoelements
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category, and let $X$ an object of $\mathcal{A}$. Recall that a pseudoelement of $X$ is an equivalence class of arrows $X_1 \to X$, where $x_1 \colon X_1 \to X$ and $...
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Does the category of commutative and cocommutative Hopf algebras have enough injectives?
It is well-known that the category of commutative and cocommutative Hopf algebras is abelian (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04001v2 and its references). But does it have enough injectives? What about ...
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Group action on fibre functor
(I asked this question on mathstack here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4413271/group-action-on-fibre-functor. After getting no response and being suggested in the comments to post it here, ...
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Derived functors of inverse limit in abelian categories?
I have a finite poset $I$ and an inverse system $A: I^{op}\longrightarrow \mathscr C$ taking values in an abelian category $\mathscr C$.
I suppose that $\mathscr C$ has direct sums. Given that my ...
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A 2-category of abelian categories?
Is there a reasonably well-behaved $2$-category of abelian categories, and if so, what are its objects (perhaps one needs to restrict one's attention to finite abelian categories ?), $1$-morphisms (...
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What are abelian categories enriched over themselves?
As far as I understand, an arbitrary abelian category is not enriched over itself, for example, $\mathrm{ChainComplex}(\mathrm{Ab})$ is, right? On the other hand, the categories $\mathrm{Mod}(R)$ (in ...
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Indecomposable objects in iterated functor categories
Let $\mathcal{O}$ be a DVR with a uniformizer $\pi$ and a finite quotient field $\mathbb{F}_q=\mathcal{O}/\pi$. Write $\mathcal{O}_r = \mathcal{O}/(\pi^r)$. Fix now an integer $r\geq 2$. We define ...