Hom duality for the Nakayama construction #
For a finite projective left module P over a possibly noncommutative algebra A,
the Nakayama module ν(P) = D Hom_A(P,A) represents the scalar dual of Hom_A(P,-):
D Hom_A(P,N) ≃ Hom_A(N,ν(P)).
The equivalence is linear over any commutative ground ring and natural in both modules.
Neither the algebra nor the coefficient module needs to be finite-dimensional. Evaluation
on the elementary map x ↦ ψ(x) • n characterizes both directions of the equivalence.
Applied to the terms of a projective presentation, naturality identifies the dual Hom
complex with the Hom complex into the Nakayama terms. Together with the kernel description
of D Tr, this is the termwise comparison used in Auslander–Reiten duality.
The construction uses balancedDualTensorHomEquiv for finite projective modules and the
universal property of BalancedTensorProduct to curry its scalar dual. The Nakayama action
is the domain action on functionals, rather than codomain scaling.
References #
- M. Auslander, I. Reiten, S. O. Smalø, Representation Theory of Artin Algebras, Cambridge University Press (1995), Section IV.2.
Scalar duality of Hom from a finite projective module is represented by its Nakayama
module: D Hom_A(P,N) ≃ Hom_A(N,ν(P)).
Instances For
The functional corresponding to χ evaluates on ψ at n by applying χ to the
elementary map x ↦ ψ(x) • n.
Inverse Hom duality evaluates on a elementary map by the associated Nakayama functional.
Nakayama Hom duality is covariantly natural in the projective module: dualizing
precomposition by f corresponds to postcomposition by ν(f).
Nakayama Hom duality is contravariantly natural in the coefficient module: dualizing
postcomposition by g corresponds to precomposition by g.