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‡ Rests on 3 statements not proved in this library, by way of the results it cites. This item cites no such statement directly; it depends on results that do. The unproved premises it inherits are ‡ Cohen's first model: an infinite Dedekind-finite set of reals, ‡ Sierpiński 1947: the generalised continuum hypothesis implies the Axiom of Choice and ‡ The continuum hypothesis and its generalisation are independent of ZFC. Each is recorded with a citation to the literature and is not established here, because the track that would prove it has not yet been developed in this library. Everything else in this proof is proved here.

Every finite k-linear abelian category is semisimple

Statement

False claim. Every finite $k$ -linear abelian category is semisimple.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The two definitions on this page.

[F1]

Finiteness requires local finiteness, finitely many simple classes, and enough projectives (Finite k-linear abelian categories).

[F2]

Semisimplicity requires every object to be a direct sum of simples (Semisimple objects and semisimple abelian categories).

Refutation

technique · direct

1.1

Let $A = k [ε] / (ε^{2})$ and let $C = A - m o d$ be the category of finite-dimensional left $A$ -modules. It is finite: $A$ is finite-dimensional, it has the single simple module $S = A / (ε)$ , and the quotient $A ↠ S$ is its projective cover.

F1construct

2.1

The sequence $0 \to S \overset{1 \mapsto ε}{\to} A \to S \to 0$ does not split. Indeed, every vector killed by $ε$ in $A$ is a multiple of $ε$ and maps to zero in the quotient, so no section exists. Thus $A$ is not a direct sum of simples, and [F2] says that $C$ is not semisimple.

step 1.1F2∎

Depends on

Used by

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Sources

Etingof, Gelaki, Nikshych, Ostrik, Tensor Categories, Section 1.8 (standard reference, not scraped)