Internal homs of representations: exactness and change of group #
The internal hom Rep.ihom A, sending a representation B to Homₖ(A, B), is an additive
functor. When the underlying module of A is projective over k, it is exact: it takes a short
exact sequence of representations to a short exact sequence (Rep.shortExact_map_ihom), since
exactness of representations is tested on underlying modules and Homₖ(A, -) is exact on
k-modules for projective A. Applied to trivial representations, this gives the short exact
sequences of coefficients Homₖ(A, N) along which group cohomology with coefficients in an
internal hom has its long exact sequence.
For a group homomorphism f : G →* H, an equivariant map φ : A ⟶ Rep.res f B,
and a module N with trivial action, precomposition with φ gives an equivariant map
Res(f)(Homₖ(B, N)) ⟶ Homₖ(A, N).
This is the coefficient map on dual representations used in contravariant change of group
for cohomology. Its underlying linear map sends ℓ to ℓ ∘ φ.
The internal hom out of a k-projective representation is exact: if the underlying module
of A is projective over k, then Homₖ(A, -) takes a short exact sequence of representations
0 ⟶ X₁ ⟶ X₂ ⟶ X₃ ⟶ 0 to the short exact sequence
0 ⟶ Homₖ(A, X₁) ⟶ Homₖ(A, X₂) ⟶ Homₖ(A, X₃) ⟶ 0.
Precomposition with an equivariant map along f, as a morphism between the internal hom
representations.
Instances For
The internal-hom map along f acts by precomposition.
The identity on a representation induces the identity on its internal hom into a trivial representation.
Change of group and precomposition reverse composites of compatible coefficient maps.
Change of group and precomposition reverse composites of compatible coefficient maps.