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Tensor product of group rings [closed]
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with unity and $\mathbb{Z}_n$ be the cyclic group of integers modulo $n$. If $R\mathbb{Z}_n$ is the group ring of $\mathbb{Z}_n$ formed over $R$, then I want to compute ...
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Transition maps in trivial direct limit
If $\{X_i, i\in I\}$ is a directed system of abelian groups such that we have
$$\varinjlim_{i\in I}X_i = 0$$
is it true that for every $i$ and large enough $j\ge i$ the transition map $f_{i,j} : X_i\...
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Pseudo-coherent complexes over sheaves of non-commutative rings
I am posing a question on derived categories to which I was not able to find an answer anywhere in the literature. I would appreciate any answer, hint or suggestion.
Assume that $\mathcal{R}_X$ is a ...
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Epimorphism going out of an inverse limit into a finite dimensional module
Let $k$ be a field and $A$ a finite dimensional $k$-algebra. Given a sequence of inclusions $M_1 \subseteq M_2 \subseteq \dots$ of $A$-modules consider the direct limit $M:= \bigcup_{i=1}^\infty M_i$. ...
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Determinant of chain complexes
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be the category of bounded cochain complexes of $R$-modules for a commutative ring $R$. I am trying to prove the following formula involving determinant $\text{Det}(F)$ of a map of ...
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Is a certain map a quasi-isomorphism?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}$Assume $F$ and $M$ are respectively right and left modules over a ring $R$ and let $I^\bullet$ be a left-bounded exact complex of $R$-$R$-bimodules. We know there is a ...
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RIng that is flat over a subring as a right module but not as a left module
What is an example of a ring $R$ and a subring $S \subseteq R$ such that $R$ is flat as a right module but not flat as a left module.
The following question is my motivation:
Faithful flatness for ...
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Relation of the first Hochschild cohomology and the outer automorphism group
Let $R$ be a ring.
Qeustion: Is it true that the first Hochschild cohomology of $R$ is zero if and only if the outer automorphism group of $R$ is finite?
(It is not true, by the two answers. Is it ...
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A projective module over a domain that is not faithfully flat?
Let $R$ be a (noncommutative) unital ring which is a domain and let $\mathcal{N}$ be a non-zero projective (right) module. Projectivity of course implies that $\mathcal{N}$ is flat, but does the fact ...
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Composition of faithfully flat ring extensions
Let $R$ be a not necessarily commutative, unital, ring, and for simplicity let module always mean right module. We say that a unital ring extension $R \hookrightarrow S$ is flat, or faithfully flat, ...
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Faithful flatness for rings
Let $R$ be a ring and let $M$ be a right module over $R$. We say that $M$ is faithfully flat as a right module if the functor $M \otimes_R -$ from left $R$-modules to abelian groups that preserves ...
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Koszul differential of the complex $\bigwedge \mathfrak{g}^*$
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a finite dimensional Lie algebra. The definition of the Koszul differential is given in the article by Kumar and Vergne on equivariant cohomology page 133 as follow:
Let us now ...
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What is a Serre-smooth algebra?
Let $A$ be an $R$-algebra.
In the book "Noncommutative Geometry and Cayley-smooth Orders" by Le Bruyn one can find the notion of "Serre-smooth" in the introduction.
But no formal ...
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Global homological dimension of group rings
In all that follows, let $k$ be a field and $G$ be a finite group.
It is well-known that the order of $G$ is invertible in $k$ iff the group ring $k[G]$ is semisimple, which is equivalent, inter alia, ...
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Faithfull flatness of a module containing the ring as a direct summand
Let $R$ be a not necessarily commutative ring, and let $M$ be a projective left $R$-module.
Question. If $R$ is a direct summand of $M$ as a left $R$-module, then is it
true that $M$ is faithfully ...
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Growth rate of cohomology
Fix a finite dimensional graded vector space $V$, a differential $d$ on $V \otimes V $ $(i.e.\,\, d^2=0\,\, and \,\, deg\, d =1)$ such that $(d_{1,2} \otimes id_3)$ anti-commutes with $((-1)^{deg}_1 \...
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Rings where all indecomposable projective modules are finitely generated
Let $X$ be the class of (unital, associative and not necessarily commutative) rings $R$ where every indecomposable projective $R$-module is finitely generated.
Question 1: Is there a nice equivalent ...
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A characterisation of symmetric algebras using Hochschild (co)homology
A finite dimensional (connected if needed) $K$-algebra $A$ over a field $K$ is called symmetric when $A \cong Hom_K(A,K)$ as $A$-bimodules. Symmetric algebras are Frobenius algebras and include for ...
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$\mathbb{Z}$-graded algebras and tensor products
Let $A = \bigoplus_{k \in \mathbb{Z}} A_k$ be a not necessarily commutative $\mathbb{Z}$-graded unital algebra over a field $\mathbb{K}$, and assume that it is strongly graded:
$$
A_kA_l = A_{k+l}.
$$
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When adic completion preserves projectives?
Lets take a ring $R$ and an ideal $\mathfrak p \subset R$, and call them an L-pair (just for brevity) if $\mathfrak p$-adic completion of any projective module is again projective (as R-module); and L-...
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Homology $H_{\ast}(T, V)$
Let $A$ be a local domain. We let $T=T(A) $ be the subgroup of $\mathrm{SL}_{2}$ consisting of diagonal matrices and $V$ be the subgroup of unital matrices of $\mathrm{SL}_{2}$; i.e.
$V:=\left\{\left(
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An identity for Ext for rings
Let $A$ be a two-sided noetherian ring (which we should assume to be Gorenstein first so that everything is well defined, otherwise it is only well defined up to a conjecture, which states that every ...
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Covariant splittings of Hopf algebra projections
What is an example of a pair of Hopf algebras $(A,B)$ with a surjective Hopf algebra map $\phi:A \to B$ such that $\phi$ does not admit a $B$-bi-comodule splitting $s:B \to A$? To be clear, the right $...
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What's the relationship between a $E_2$-Hochschild Cohomology module and a D-module?
Let's say for simplicity $A$ is a smooth algebra over a field $k$ ($A$ and $k$ are discrete commutative rings but from now on we are fully derived), and we will consider the $E_2$ algebra $HH^{\bullet}...
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Why is Hochschild homology interesting if its cohomology groups are infinite-dimensional?
I am trying to understand Hochschild homology, in particular the Hochschild–Kostant–Rosenberg theorem. As far as I understand this result gives an isomorphism between the algebraic (Kähler) ...
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Who introduced the abstract definition of a DGA?
Differential graded algebras, or DGAs, are a basic object of study in many areas of modern mathematics. While they were present (implicitly at least) since the start of modern differential geometry, I ...
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Smallness condition for augmented algebras
I'm not sure this question is research level question. Sorry in advance.
Hypothesis
$k$ is a commutative ring.
$A$ is an augmented $k$-algebra.
$A^e$ is defined as the $k$-algebra $A\otimes_{k}A^{op}$...
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Rigid monoidal and closed monoidal categories
I am trying to understand the relationship between rigid monoidal categories and closed monoidal
categories. First every rigid monoidal category is closed, with an adjoint to the functor $X \otimes -$ ...
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Independence results on pure algebra
I think that the most celebrated result in this direction is Shelah's famous work on Whitehead's Problem:
Is every abelian group $A$ such that $Ext^1(A, \mathbb{Z})=0$ free?
This is known to be ...
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Hochschild cohomology of an Azumaya algebra
Let $k$ be a field. Given a commutative $k$-algebra $Z$ and an associative algebra $A$ that is Azumaya over $Z$, do we have an isomorphism of Hochschild cohomologies: $HH^*(A) \cong HH^*(Z)$?
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On grades of torsion modules in noetherian rings
Let $A$ be a (not necessarily commutative) two-sided noetherian ring with minimal injective coresolution $(I_i)$ of the regular module $A$ as a right module.
Say that $A$ has dominant dimension $n$ in ...
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Question on a subcategory being extension-closed
In the article "Homological theory of noetherian rings" by Idun Reiten from 1996, it was stated that it seems to be not known whether the subcategory $\operatorname{Tr}(\Omega^i(\mathrm{mod}\...
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On properties of an algebra as a bimodule
Let $A$ be a two-sided artinian ring.
Recall that a module $M$ is said to have dominant dimension at least $n$ in case the terms $I_i$ in the minimal injective coresolution of $M$ are projective for $...
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Skew differential graded algebra
A sigma, or skew, derivation is a natural generalisation of the
notion of derivation depending on an algebra automorphism $\sigma$ which
when equal to $id = \sigma$ reduces to the usual notion of a
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Simplicial differential graded algebra and a filtration
Let $A$ be a simplicial differential algebra, i.e. for each $n \in \mathbb{N}$ a differential graded algebra $(A_n,d_n)$ and for each weakly increasing map $f \colon [n] \to [m]$ a morphism $f_* \...
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Generalising injective modules
Free modules over a ring generalise to projective modules over a ring, which generalise to flat modules, which generalise to torsion free modules:
$$
\textrm{free} \to
\textrm{projective}
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Flat augmentation ideal of a group-ring
If $G$ is a group and $I$ the augmentation ideal $I=Ker(\mathbb{Z}G\rightarrow \mathbb{Z})$ suppose that:
$I$ is a flat (right) $\mathbb{Z}G$-module.
$I$ is a finitely generated (right) $\mathbb{Z}G$...
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Weakly symmetric rings and derived equivalences
A ring $R$ with Jacobson radical $J$ is called Frobenius in case $R/J \cong soc(R)$ as left and right $R$-modules and weakly symmetric in case we even have $R/J \cong soc(R)$ as $R$-bimodules.
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Projective module which splits off sequence of submodules, but not the sum
Does there exist an example of a module $X$ over some ring $R$ together with submodules $T_i$ such that:
$X$ is projective,
$X$ splits as an internal direct sum $X\cong T_1\oplus T_2\oplus \ldots \...
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Example of a projective bimodule with isomorphic left and right duals
What is an example of a non-free finitely generated $R$-bimodule $M$ satisfying
i) $M$ is projective as both a left and right $R$-module
ii) the right dual $\mathrm{Hom}_R(M,R)$ and the left dual ...
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Construct $A_\infty$ bimodules maps from dg-maps
Let $ A $ be a dg-algebra. Let $U,V,W$ and $Z$ be dg-bimodules over $A$-$A$. Suppose I have cofibrant replacements $\pi_U : Up \rightarrow U$ (as right dg-module) and $\pi_W : pW \rightarrow W$ (as ...
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Left module which cannot be made into a bimodule?
Let $A$ be a noncommutative unital algebra, defined over $\mathbb{C}$ say. What is an example of a left $A$-module $M$ that does not admit a right $A$-module structure giving $M$ the structure of a ...
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Dual of a projective module
Let $R$ be a noncommutative ring with unit, let $P$ be a projective left $R$-module, and denote $^{\vee}\!P := \,_R\mathrm{Hom}(P,R)$. One often sees it written that projectivity implies an ...
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Monoidal categories from the projective modules of a ring
Let $R$ be a not necessarily commutative ring, and denote by $_R\mathrm{lp}_R$ the category of $R$-bimodules, which are finitely generated projective as left modules, with morphism $R$-bimodule maps, ...
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A weaker version of strongly graded algebras
Let $A = \oplus_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} A_i$ be a graded algebra. We say that it is strongly graded if $A_i.A_j = A_{i+j}$, for all $i,j \in \mathbb{Z}$. Can there be existing a graded algebra such that
$$...
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Generalization of semi-hereditarity
Let $R$ be a ring. A left $R$-module $K$ is called an $N$-th kernel if there are projective left $R$-modules $P_1, \ldots P_N$ and a short exact sequence
$$ 0\rightarrow K \rightarrow P_N \rightarrow \...
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Strongly graded algebras with no zero divisors
Let $A = \bigoplus_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} A_i$ be a strongly graded unital algebra over $\mathbb{C}$, with no zero divisors. Is it always true that
$$
m: A_i \otimes_{A_0} A_j \to A_{i+j}
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is an ...
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Invertible bimodules and projectivity
Let $A$ be a noncommutative algebra over a field, say $\mathbb{C}$ or $\mathbb{R}$, and let $L$ be a bimodule over $A$. If $L$ is invertible, that is, if the dual right $A$-module $L^*$ satisfies
$$
L^...
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Is Hilbert basis theorem true for positive graded ring?
Let $R=\oplus_{I\geq 0}R_i$ be a positive graded ring(maybe not commutative), where $R_0$ is a commutative Noetherian ring. If $R$ is finite generated $R_0$-algebra, is $R$ Noetherian?
In here, Is ...
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Augmented algebras over semisimple ring
Let $A$ be a non-negatively graded algebra such that $A_0 = k$. We say that $A$ is Koszul if $k$ has a projective resolution by projective modules such that the i-th piece is generated in degree $i$. ...
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