Stable categories of products #
The projective stable category of a product of exact categories is additively equivalent to the product of their projective stable categories. The comparison sends a pair to the pair of its stable classes and acts componentwise on morphisms. No Frobenius hypothesis is needed for this additive equivalence: a pair of maps factors through a relative projective exactly when both maps do.
For Frobenius exact categories the product exact structure is Frobenius, and the two projections
preserve projective-injectives. Their stable functors therefore admit the suspension comparisons
and triangle-functor structures of StableConflationExact.stableFunctorIsTriangulated. The
comparison here concerns the additive categories; it does not identify their triangulations.
References #
- Dieter Happel, Triangulated Categories in the Representation Theory of Finite Dimensional Algebras, Chapter I, Section 2 (stable quotients of Frobenius categories).
A map in the product is projectively trivial precisely when both components are projectively trivial. Two component factorizations combine through the pair of projectives.
The componentwise comparison from the stable category of a product to the product of stable categories.
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- E.projectiveStableProdFunctor E' = (E.prod E').projectiveStableIdeal.lift (E.projectiveStableFunctor.prod E'.projectiveStableFunctor) ⋯
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The product comparison sends the class of a pair to the pair of its classes.
The product comparison acts componentwise on representatives of stable morphisms.
The product comparison commutes with the quotient functors.
The projective stable category of a product is additively equivalent to the product of the projective stable categories, without an enough-projectives or Frobenius hypothesis.
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The forward functor of the product equivalence is the componentwise comparison.
The first projection of exact categories preserves projective-injectives, and hence induces a stable triangle functor when the exact structures are Frobenius.
The second projection of exact categories preserves projective-injectives, and hence induces a stable triangle functor when the exact structures are Frobenius.
The first component of the product comparison is the stable functor induced by the first projection. Thus its suspension comparison and triangle-functor structure are those already constructed for stable conflation-exact functors.
The second component of the product comparison is the stable functor induced by the second projection, with its existing suspension and triangle-functor structures.