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Eilenberg-Watts is a schematic equivalence of Hom categories
Statement
Let be unital rings. The assignment extends to an schematic equivalence between the category of -bimodules with bimodule maps (-bimodules and commuting left and right scalar actions) and the category of additive cocontinuous functors with natural transformations (Natural transformations of additive cocontinuous module functors are determined at the regular module). It is full and faithful with , naturally in and , and essentially surjective by Eilenberg-Watts theorem for arbitrary unital rings; a quasi-inverse is . In particular if and only if as -bimodules. Categorical language has the schematic meaning of Additive cocontinuous module functors and their schematic category; no category with proper-class functors as set-coded objects is asserted. No commutativity and no choice are used.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Unital rings and -bimodules .
The assignment lands in additive cocontinuous functors, and a bimodule map gives the natural transformation with components , compatibly with identities and vertical composition; every additive cocontinuous functor is naturally isomorphic to (Eilenberg-Watts theorem for arbitrary unital rings).
The additive cocontinuous functors with all natural transformations form a schematic category with set-coded fixed Hom-collections, and the -bimodules with bimodule maps form a locally small category because each Hom-collection is a set of functions (Natural transformations of additive cocontinuous module functors are determined at the regular module, -bimodules and commuting left and right scalar actions).
The assignment is a bijection , and the two assignments are compatible with addition, identities and vertical composition; the inverse sends to (Natural transformations between tensor functors are bimodule maps).
A functor is fully faithful when every induced hom-map is bijective and split essentially surjective when the data assign to every object of the target an object with an isomorphism ; such a functor is an equivalence, and no choice principle is needed because the splitting is part of the data (Faithful, full, fully faithful, essentially surjective, and split essentially surjective functors, A functor is an equivalence exactly when it is fully faithful and split essentially surjective, without Choice).
A natural isomorphism has an inverse natural transformation (Natural isomorphism).
Proof
Let be the assignment on objects of the bimodule category and on morphisms. By [F1] the objects are additive cocontinuous functors and the morphisms are natural transformations, compatibly with identities and vertical composition, so respects the schematic category operations of [F2]; fixed Hom-collections are represented by sets by [F2].
is full and faithful: for every pair the map is the bijection of [F3].
is split essentially surjective: by [F1] every additive cocontinuous is naturally isomorphic to , and together with that isomorphism is determined by , so the required data are supplied without any selection.
The construction proving [F4] applies schematically: for , define as the unique bimodule map whose tensor transformation is , using the canonical comparisons of [F1] and the bijection [F3]. Composition compatibility makes functorial, and is natural in by this defining equation. Since , [F3] gives . The tensor-unit maps give the other natural isomorphism : the reconstructed right action is , and , while naturality follows on elementary tensors, so is a schematic quasi-inverse. No quantification over objects that are proper classes is needed.
Naturality in and : for a bimodule map and , the bijection of [F3] sends to the vertical composite of with by the composition compatibility in [F3]; likewise postcomposition with a bimodule map corresponds to postcomposition with its tensor transformation. Hence the bijections are natural in both variables.
The bijection identifies natural isomorphisms with bimodule isomorphisms: if is a natural isomorphism with associated and inverse with associated , then the identities and translate under the compatibility of [F3] into and , because the bijection sends to ; conversely, for a bimodule isomorphism the transformation with components is a natural isomorphism with components . Hence if and only if .
Steps 1.1-2.1 exhibit the equivalence with quasi-inverse , step 2.2 its naturality in both variables, and step 2.3 the isomorphism statement. No object or presentation was chosen, and no commutativity is used.
Depends on
- Eilenberg-Watts theorem for arbitrary unital rings
- Additive cocontinuous module functors and their schematic category
- Natural transformations between tensor functors are bimodule maps
- Natural transformations of additive cocontinuous module functors are determined at the regular module
- Faithful, full, fully faithful, essentially surjective, and split essentially surjective functors
- A functor is an equivalence exactly when it is fully faithful and split essentially surjective, without Choice
- Natural isomorphism
- $(S,R)$-bimodules and commuting left and right scalar actions
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Sources
- M. Kamensky, Non-Commutative Algebra (BGU course notes, Spring 2017), §5.1, Theorem 5.1.43, Proposition 5.1.40, Lemma 5.1.46, Corollaries 5.1.48-5.1.49 (standard reference, not scraped)
- A. Nyman and S. P. Smith, A Generalization of Watts's Theorem: Right Exact Functors on Module Categories, arXiv:0806.0832, Theorem 1.1-1.2, Propositions 3.2-3.3, Lemma 3.4 (standard reference, not scraped)