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TauCeti.CategoryTheory.Exact.ExtensionClosed

The exact structure induced on an extension-closed full subcategory #

Let E be a Quillen exact structure on an additive category C and let P : ObjectProperty C be closed under extensions: whenever X ⟶ Y ⟶ Z is an E-conflation with P X and P Z, also P Y. If moreover P holds for a zero object and is closed under binary products — the explicit form of "the full subcategory is additive" — then P.FullSubcategory carries an exact structure whose conflations are the conflations of E all of whose terms lie in P, and the inclusion functor both preserves and reflects conflations.

This is the third of the three fundamental constructions of exact structures, after the split structure on an additive category and the canonical structure on an abelian category. It is what lets a subcategory such as the finitely generated projective modules, or the modules admitting a finite projective resolution, be treated as an exact category in its own right.

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Main results #

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A full subcategory of an additive category closed under binary products has binary biproducts: in a preadditive category binary products already are biproducts.

An object property is extension closed for an exact structure E when the middle term of every E-conflation whose outer terms satisfy the property satisfies the property.

For the canonical exact structure of an abelian category this is Mathlib's CategoryTheory.ObjectProperty.IsClosedUnderExtensions; see TauCeti.ExactStructure.isExtensionClosed_abelian_iff.

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    An extension-closed property is closed under binary biproducts, because the biproduct short complex is a conflation of every exact structure.

    A replete extension-closed property is closed under binary products. Together with CategoryTheory.ObjectProperty.ContainsZero this is exactly the additivity of the full subcategory, so no separate closure hypothesis on biproducts is needed.

    An extension-closed property holding for some zero object is closed under isomorphisms: an isomorphism X ≅ Y followed by the zero map to a zero object is a split conflation.

    For the split exact structure, extension closure is exactly closure under binary biproducts. This is the hypothesis under which a subcategory such as the finitely generated projective modules inherits the split structure.

    The exact structure induced on an extension-closed full subcategory. Its conflations are the conflations of E all of whose terms lie in P.

    The subcategory is required to be additive in the explicit form of containing a zero object and being closed under binary products; by TauCeti.ExactStructure.IsExtensionClosed.isClosedUnderBinaryProducts the second condition is automatic for a replete extension-closed P.

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      A short complex of the subcategory is a conflation of the induced exact structure exactly when its image in the ambient category is a conflation.

      The inclusion of an extension-closed full subcategory reflects conflations: a short complex of the subcategory whose image is a conflation of E is a conflation of the induced structure.