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The abelian category of finite abelian groups has no nonzero projective object
Statement refuted
Every abelian category has a nonzero projective object.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The abelian category of finite abelian groups.
Projective objects are exactly those for which every epimorphism onto them splits (Projective object characterisations).
Enough projectives would require, in particular, some nonzero projective object (A category with enough projectives and with enough injectives).
Counterexample
The category is abelian: kernels, cokernels, and finite biproducts of homomorphisms of finite abelian groups are again finite abelian groups. Let be a nonzero finite abelian group, and fix a prime for which has a nonzero -primary quotient. Among all cyclic quotients of of the form , choose one with maximal , say .
Let be the canonical quotient map. If were projective, [L1] would lift to with . Since is surjective, so is . Thus would be a quotient of , contradicting maximality of . Therefore no nonzero object of is projective. So is an abelian category with no nonzero projective object.
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Sources
- Charles A. Weibel, An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Appendix A.4 (standard reference, not scraped)