Английская Википедия:Abelian category

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Шаблон:Short description In mathematics, an abelian category is a category in which morphisms and objects can be added and in which kernels and cokernels exist and have desirable properties.

The motivating prototypical example of an abelian category is the category of abelian groups, Шаблон:Math.

Abelian categories are very stable categories; for example they are regular and they satisfy the snake lemma. The class of abelian categories is closed under several categorical constructions, for example, the category of chain complexes of an abelian category, or the category of functors from a small category to an abelian category are abelian as well. These stability properties make them inevitable in homological algebra and beyond; the theory has major applications in algebraic geometry, cohomology and pure category theory.

Mac Lane[1] says Alexander Grothendieck[2] defined the abelian category, but there is a reference[3] that says Eilenberg's disciple, Buchsbaum, proposed the concept in his PhD thesis,[4] and Grothendieck popularized it under the name "abelian category".

Definitions

A category is abelian if it is preadditive and

This definition is equivalent[5] to the following "piecemeal" definition:

Note that the enriched structure on hom-sets is a consequence of the first three axioms of the first definition. This highlights the foundational relevance of the category of Abelian groups in the theory and its canonical nature.

The concept of exact sequence arises naturally in this setting, and it turns out that exact functors, i.e. the functors preserving exact sequences in various senses, are the relevant functors between abelian categories. This exactness concept has been axiomatized in the theory of exact categories, forming a very special case of regular categories.

Examples

Grothendieck's axioms

In his Tōhoku article, Grothendieck listed four additional axioms (and their duals) that an abelian category A might satisfy. These axioms are still in common use to this day. They are the following:

and their duals

  • AB3*) For every indexed family (Ai) of objects of A, the product PAi exists in A (i.e. A is complete).
  • AB4*) A satisfies AB3*), and the product of a family of epimorphisms is an epimorphism.
  • AB5*) A satisfies AB3*), and filtered limits of exact sequences are exact.

Axioms AB1) and AB2) were also given. They are what make an additive category abelian. Specifically:

  • AB1) Every morphism has a kernel and a cokernel.
  • AB2) For every morphism f, the canonical morphism from coim f to im f is an isomorphism.

Grothendieck also gave axioms AB6) and AB6*).

  • AB6) A satisfies AB3), and given a family of filtered categories <math>I_j, j\in J</math> and maps <math>A_j : I_j \to A</math>, we have <math>\prod_{j\in J} \lim_{I_j} A_j = \lim_{I_j, \forall j\in J} \prod_{j\in J} A_j</math>, where lim denotes the filtered colimit.
  • AB6*) A satisfies AB3*), and given a family of cofiltered categories <math>I_j, j\in J</math> and maps <math>A_j : I_j \to A</math>, we have <math>\sum_{j\in J} \lim_{I_j} A_j = \lim_{I_j, \forall j\in J} \sum_{j\in J} A_j</math>, where lim denotes the cofiltered limit.

Elementary properties

Given any pair A, B of objects in an abelian category, there is a special zero morphism from A to B. This can be defined as the zero element of the hom-set Hom(A,B), since this is an abelian group. Alternatively, it can be defined as the unique composition A → 0 → B, where 0 is the zero object of the abelian category.

In an abelian category, every morphism f can be written as the composition of an epimorphism followed by a monomorphism. This epimorphism is called the coimage of f, while the monomorphism is called the image of f.

Subobjects and quotient objects are well-behaved in abelian categories. For example, the poset of subobjects of any given object A is a bounded lattice.

Every abelian category A is a module over the monoidal category of finitely generated abelian groups; that is, we can form a tensor product of a finitely generated abelian group G and any object A of A. The abelian category is also a comodule; Hom(G,A) can be interpreted as an object of A. If A is complete, then we can remove the requirement that G be finitely generated; most generally, we can form finitary enriched limits in A.

Related concepts

Abelian categories are the most general setting for homological algebra. All of the constructions used in that field are relevant, such as exact sequences, and especially short exact sequences, and derived functors. Important theorems that apply in all abelian categories include the five lemma (and the short five lemma as a special case), as well as the snake lemma (and the nine lemma as a special case).

Semi-simple Abelian categories

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An abelian category <math>\mathbf{A}</math> is called semi-simple if there is a collection of objects <math>\{X_i\}_{i \in I} \in \text{Ob}(\mathbf{A})</math> called simple objects (meaning the only sub-objects of any <math>X_i</math> are the zero object <math>0</math> and itself) such that an object <math>X \in \text{Ob}(\mathbf{A})</math> can be decomposed as a direct sum (denoting the coproduct of the abelian category)

<math>X \cong \bigoplus_{i \in I} X_i</math>

This technical condition is rather strong and excludes many natural examples of abelian categories found in nature. For example, most module categories over a ring <math>R</math> are not semi-simple; in fact, this is the case if and only if <math>R</math> is a semisimple ring.

Examples

Some Abelian categories found in nature are semi-simple, such as

  • Category of vector spaces <math>\text{Vect}(k)</math> over a fixed field <math>k</math>.
  • By Maschke's theorem the category of representations <math>\text{Rep}_k(G)</math> of a finite group <math>G</math> over a field <math>k</math> whose characteristic does not divide <math>|G|</math> is a semi-simple abelian category.
  • The category of coherent sheaves on a Noetherian scheme is semi-simple if and only if <math>X</math> is a finite disjoint union of irreducible points. This is equivalent to a finite coproduct of categories of vector spaces over different fields. Showing this is true in the forward direction is equivalent to showing all <math>\text{Ext}^1</math> groups vanish, meaning the cohomological dimension is 0. This only happens when the skyscraper sheaves <math>k_x</math> at a point <math>x \in X</math> have Zariski tangent space equal to zero, which is isomorphic to <math>\text{Ext}^1(k_x,k_x)</math> using local algebra for such a scheme.[7]

Non-examples

There do exist some natural counter-examples of abelian categories which are not semi-simple, such as certain categories of representations. For example, the category of representations of the Lie group <math>(\mathbb{R},+)</math> has the representation

<math>a \mapsto \begin{bmatrix}

1 & a \\ 0 & 1

\end{bmatrix}</math>

which only has one subrepresentation of dimension <math>1</math>. In fact, this is true for any unipotent group[8]pg 112.

Subcategories of abelian categories

There are numerous types of (full, additive) subcategories of abelian categories that occur in nature, as well as some conflicting terminology.

Let A be an abelian category, C a full, additive subcategory, and I the inclusion functor.

  • C is an exact subcategory if it is itself an exact category and the inclusion I is an exact functor. This occurs if and only if C is closed under pullbacks of epimorphisms and pushouts of monomorphisms. The exact sequences in C are thus the exact sequences in A for which all objects lie in C.
  • C is an abelian subcategory if it is itself an abelian category and the inclusion I is an exact functor. This occurs if and only if C is closed under taking kernels and cokernels. Note that there are examples of full subcategories of an abelian category that are themselves abelian but where the inclusion functor is not exact, so they are not abelian subcategories (see below).
  • C is a thick subcategory if it is closed under taking direct summands and satisfies the 2-out-of-3 property on short exact sequences; that is, if <math>0 \to M' \to M \to M \to 0 </math> is a short exact sequence in A such that two of <math>M',M,M</math> lie in C, then so does the third. In other words, C is closed under kernels of epimorphisms, cokernels of monomorphisms, and extensions. Note that P. Gabriel used the term thick subcategory to describe what we here call a Serre subcategory.
  • C is a topologizing subcategory if it is closed under subquotients.
  • C is a Serre subcategory if, for all short exact sequences <math>0 \to M' \to M \to M \to 0 </math> in A we have M in C if and only if both <math>M',M</math> are in C. In other words, C is closed under extensions and subquotients. These subcategories are precisely the kernels of exact functors from A to another abelian category.
  • C is a localizing subcategory if it is a Serre subcategory such that the quotient functor <math>Q\colon\mathbf A \to \mathbf A/\mathbf C</math> admits a right adjoint.
  • There are two competing notions of a wide subcategory. One version is that C contains every object of A (up to isomorphism); for a full subcategory this is obviously not interesting. (This is also called a lluf subcategory.) The other version is that C is closed under extensions.

Here is an explicit example of a full, additive subcategory of an abelian category that is itself abelian but the inclusion functor is not exact. Let k be a field, <math>T_n</math> the algebra of upper-triangular <math>n\times n</math> matrices over k, and <math>\mathbf A_n</math> the category of finite-dimensional <math>T_n</math>-modules. Then each <math>\mathbf A_n</math> is an abelian category and we have an inclusion functor <math>I\colon\mathbf A_2 \to \mathbf A_3</math> identifying the simple projective, simple injective and indecomposable projective-injective modules. The essential image of I is a full, additive subcategory, but I is not exact.

History

Abelian categories were introduced by Шаблон:Harvtxt (under the name of "exact category") and Шаблон:Harvtxt in order to unify various cohomology theories. At the time, there was a cohomology theory for sheaves, and a cohomology theory for groups. The two were defined differently, but they had similar properties. In fact, much of category theory was developed as a language to study these similarities. Grothendieck unified the two theories: they both arise as derived functors on abelian categories; the abelian category of sheaves of abelian groups on a topological space, and the abelian category of G-modules for a given group G.

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Harvtxt
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Harvtxt
  5. ↑ Peter Freyd, Abelian Categories
  6. ↑ Handbook of categorical algebra, vol. 2, F. Borceux
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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