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TauCeti.Algebra.Homology.Periodic.Examples

Acyclic differential modules need not be contractible #

Over the dual numbers over any commutative ring k, multiplication by ε gives a differential module whose one-periodic complex is exact and whose underlying module is free. When k is nontrivial, no linear homotopy contracts the differential. This example separates acyclicity from contractibility at the boundary between homotopy and derived categories: the one-periodic complex is nonzero in the periodic homotopy category but zero in the periodic derived category. Since it is acyclic and not contractible, it is not homotopically projective, although its unique term is projective (dualNumberDifferentialModule_projective). Thus acyclicity does not imply contractibility, and projectivity of the terms does not imply homotopical projectivity. For the same reason the complex has no projective flag (not_hasProjectiveFlag_dualNumberPeriodicComplex).

References #

@[reducible, inline]
abbrev TauCeti.DualNumbers (k : Type u_1) :
Type u_1

The algebra of dual numbers over k.

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    The differential module on the regular dual-number module with differential multiplication by ε.

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      @[simp]

      The underlying object of the dual-number differential module is the regular module.

      @[reducible, inline]

      The one-periodic complex associated to multiplication by ε on the dual numbers.

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        The one-periodic complex of the dual-number differential module is acyclic.

        Multiplication by ε on the regular module admits no contracting homotopy: there is no linear map h with d h + h d = 1.

        The dual-number periodic complex is zero in the periodic derived category.

        The dual-number periodic complex is not homotopically projective, although its unique term is projective by dualNumberDifferentialModule_projective.

        The dual-number periodic complex has no projective flag, although its unique term is projective by dualNumberDifferentialModule_projective.