Additive structure on the closed category of a DG category #
The canonical equivalence between closed morphisms and degree-zero cocycles transports the
additive group and base-ring module structures to the existing underlying category. Composition
is bilinear by the DG composition laws. Taking closed components and passing to their homotopy
classes preserve these operations, so the canonical functor to H⁰ is additive and linear.
DG functors also induce additive linear functors between the closed categories.
References #
- B. Keller, Deriving DG categories, Section 1.
Closed morphisms form an additive group by the canonical equivalence with cocycles.
The canonical cocycle equivalence is additive for the transported group structure.
Instances For
Closed morphisms are a base-ring module by transport through their cocycle equivalence.
The additive cocycle equivalence takes a morphism to its closed component.
Taking the closed component preserves zero.
Taking the closed component preserves addition.
Taking the closed component preserves scalar multiplication.
The closed category is preadditive by bilinearity of degree-zero DG composition.
The closed category is linear over the base ring.