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TauCeti.Algebra.Homology.Opposite

Naturality of the homology of an unopposite complex #

For a homological complex K in an opposite category Vᵒᵖ, Mathlib identifies the homology of the complex K.unop in V with the unopposite of the homology of K (HomologicalComplex.homologyUnop), and proves that the analogous identification HomologicalComplex.homologyOp is natural (HomologicalComplex.homologyOp_hom_naturality). This file records the naturality of homologyUnop itself.

It is what lets a morphism of chain complexes of projectives, read through the contravariant functor Hom(-, Y), be compared with the induced map on the cohomology of the Hom-complexes: Mathlib's computation of Ext from a projective resolution passes through homologyUnop.

Main results #

homologyUnop is natural. For a morphism φ : K ⟶ L of complexes in Vᵒᵖ, the square comparing the unopposite of homologyMap φ with the homology map of the unopposite morphism L.unop ⟶ K.unop commutes.