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Projective object
Definition
An object of an abelian category is projective when for every epimorphism and every morphism , there exists a morphism with
The lift need not be unique.
Depends on
Used by
- A category with enough injectives but not enough projectives Counterexample
- Finite length and finite Hom do not imply a finite category Counterexample
- A category with enough projectives and with enough injectives Definition
- Effaceable homological delta functor in positive degrees Definition
- Finite graded projective modules Definition
- Finite k-linear abelian categories Definition
- Projective resolutions in an abelian category Definition
- Small projective generators and progenerators Definition
- Superfluous subobjects and projective covers in an abelian category Definition
- An acyclic resolution that is not an injective resolution Example
- FALSE: a generator is automatically projective False statement
- A maximal-label Verma is projective in its truncation Lemma
- Diagonal bar coinvariants compute group homology Lemma
- Exact projections onto linkage blocks preserve projectives Lemma
- Extending a partial comparison homotopy by one degree Lemma
- Extending a partial comparison map by one degree Lemma
- Finite-dimensional tensoring preserves projectives in category O Lemma
- Finite-support families of finite-dimensional vector spaces are locally finite but not finite Lemma
- Fitting decomposition in a finite-length abelian category Lemma
- Generator differences form a basis of the free-group augmentation ideal Lemma
- Lifting a map through degree zero of a projective resolution Lemma
- Module diagrams have projective representables and computable derived colimits Lemma
- One-step extension of a partial projective resolution Lemma
- Projective epimorphisms onto the simples generate every finite-length object Lemma
- The degree-zero horseshoe lift Lemma
- The Khovanov-Seidel grid resolutions of the vertex modules Lemma
- A projective object has a length-zero projective resolution Proposition
- Contravariant derived functors are derived on the opposite category Proposition
- Projective covers in O are indecomposable and unique Proposition
- Translation functors are exact and biadjoint Proposition
- A bounded above complex of projectives is homotopically projective Theorem
- A bounded below acyclic complex of projective objects is contractible when its cycle epimorphisms split Theorem
- An object is projective exactly when Hom out of it is exact Theorem
- Category O has enough projectives Theorem
- Finite abelian categories admit finite-dimensional module models Theorem
- Finite graded projectives are finite shifted-free summands Theorem
- Intrinsic finite category hypotheses give a finite projective generator Theorem
- Projective object characterisations Theorem
- Schanuel's lemma in an abelian category Theorem
- Tensoring with a dualizable object preserves projectives Theorem
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Sources
- Pavel Etingof, Shlomo Gelaki, Dmitri Nikshych, and Victor Ostrik, Tensor Categories, Definition 1.6.5 (standard reference, not scraped)