The differential on a balanced tensor product of DG modules #
For a right DG module M and a left DG module N over the same DG algebra A, the
ordinary balanced tensor product carries the differential
d (m ⊗ n) = dM m ⊗ n + (-1)^|m| m ⊗ dN n.
The two module Leibniz rules make this formula balanced even when the algebra differential
is nonzero. Its square vanishes by cancellation of the mixed terms.
This file constructs that endomorphism over an arbitrary commutative ground ring and proves compatibility with tensoring DG module morphisms and with the regular-module unit identifications. It supplies the differential on the underlying balanced module; a grading on the quotient and outer bimodule actions are separate constructions.
References #
- B. Keller, Deriving DG categories, Section 6.1.
The signed tensor differential on the ordinary balanced tensor product of a right and a left DG module. No flatness assumption is needed for this underived construction.
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On arbitrary pure tensors, the sign is represented by the grading's Koszul twist.
The tensor differential has the usual sign on a homogeneous left factor.
The differential on the balanced tensor product squares to zero.
Applying the tensor differential twice gives zero.
Tensoring equivariant chain maps, with the first map of degree zero, commutes with the balanced tensor differential. Only the first map's degree is needed for this differential identity.
The left regular-module unit identification commutes with the tensor differential.
The right regular-module unit identification commutes with the tensor differential.