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FALSE: enough projectives imply a canonical resolution for every object

Statement

If an abelian category has enough projectives, then that property uniquely determines a projective resolution for every object.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The category of abelian groups, which has enough projectives, and the object Z/2Z.

[L1]

A supplied projective resolution datum is extra objectwise structure, not an existence theorem of its own (Supplied projective resolution data).

[L2]

Even chosen objectwise projective resolutions do not uniquely determine comparison maps, and hence do not by themselves determine a resolution functor (FALSE: objectwise projective-resolution choices uniquely determine a resolution functor).

[L3]

The iterated free resolution is a special canonical construction in module categories, not a general consequence of enough projectives (The iterated free-module resolution is canonical in ZF).

Refutation

technique · direct
1.1

One projective resolution of Z/2 is 0Z2ZZ/20. Adding the contractible projective complex 0Z1Z0 in degrees 1 and 0 gives a different projective resolution 0ZZdiag(2,1)ZZZ/20, where the augmentation is reduction modulo 2 on the first summand. Both displayed augmented complexes are exact, but they are not the same resolution.

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2.1

Thus even in a category with enough projectives the property alone does not uniquely determine a resolution of a fixed object. Moreover, [L2] shows that arbitrary objectwise choices still do not uniquely determine the comparison maps of a resolution functor. The special construction in [L3] uses the extra underlying-set structure of a module category, while [L1] records that a general supplied datum is additional structure. Therefore the displayed claim is false.

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