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TauCeti.CategoryTheory.Localization.Triangulated

Transporting a triangulation along an equivalence #

An equivalence of categories F : C ⥤ D is a localization functor for the class of isomorphisms of C. This class admits a left calculus of fractions, and, when C is pretriangulated, it is compatible with the triangulation. Consequently Mathlib's construction CategoryTheory.Triangulated.Localization.pretriangulated applies to F: if D carries a shift by ℤ for which F commutes with the shifts, then D is pretriangulated, with distinguished triangles the triangles isomorphic to images of distinguished triangles of C, F is a triangle functor, and D is triangulated as soon as C is (CategoryTheory.Triangulated.Localization.isTriangulated).

This is the transport used for homotopy categories that are identified with the stable category of a Frobenius exact category: Happel's triangulation of the stable category is transported along the identification, after the shift of the homotopy category has been matched with stable suspension.

Main results #

The isomorphisms of a category admit a left calculus of fractions: a right fraction s⁻¹ ≫ f with s an isomorphism is the left fraction (inv s ≫ f) ≫ (𝟙)⁻¹.

An equivalence of categories is a localization functor for the isomorphisms of its source.

The isomorphisms of a category are compatible with every shift by an additive group: a morphism is an isomorphism exactly when its shift is.

In a pretriangulated category, the isomorphisms are compatible with the triangulation: a morphism of distinguished triangles whose first two components are isomorphisms can be completed by an isomorphism.