Detecting monomorphisms and epimorphisms of polarizable Hodge structures #
In the category of polarizable rational Hodge structures, a morphism is monic exactly when its rational map is injective, and epic exactly when its rational map is surjective. These criteria allow categorical subobjects to be identified with rational Hodge substructures, and hence allow orthogonal complements to be used to split categorical monomorphisms.
A morphism is an isomorphism exactly when its rational map is bijective. The category is balanced, and the rational realization preserves monomorphisms and epimorphisms and reflects isomorphisms.
References #
Voisin, Hodge Theory and Complex Algebraic Geometry I, §7.1.2; Peters--Steenbrink, Mixed Hodge Structures, §2.
A morphism of polarizable rational Hodge structures is monic exactly when its rational map is injective.
A morphism of polarizable rational Hodge structures is epic exactly when its rational map is surjective.
The rational realization preserves monomorphisms.
The rational realization preserves epimorphisms.
A morphism of polarizable rational Hodge structures is an isomorphism exactly when its rational map is bijective.
The rational realization reflects isomorphisms: a rationally invertible Hodge morphism has an inverse preserving the Hodge filtration.
A morphism of polarizable rational Hodge structures which is both monic and epic is an isomorphism.