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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.

Effaceable cohomological delta functors are universal

Statement

Let T=(Tn,T) be a cohomological delta functor on an abelian category. If T is effaceable in positive degrees by injectives, then T is universal.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A cohomological delta functor S=(Sn,S) and a natural transformation u0:T0S0.

[L1]

Universality for a cohomological delta functor means unique extension of u0 to a morphism of cohomological delta functors (Universal delta functor, Morphism of cohomological delta functors).

[L2]

Effaceability supplies admissible injective effacements, and the dimension-shift lemma identifies the source of the next map with a cokernel (Effaceable cohomological delta functor in positive degrees, Dimension shift for a cohomological delta functor effaced in the middle).

[L3]

Item 19 defines the next-degree component from one chosen effacement, item 20 makes it choice-free, and item 21 preserves compatibility with the connecting maps (A partial morphism of delta functors extends through one dimension shift, The effacement extension is independent of the effacing morphism, The effacement extension commutes with connecting morphisms).

Proof

technique · induction
1.1

Set the degree-zero component to be the given map u0.

basegiven
1.2

Suppose by induction that for some n0 we have already constructed natural transformations ui:TiSi for all in, compatible with the connecting morphisms through degree n1. For each object A, choose an injective effacement eA:AIA for Tn+1(A) using [L2]. The cohomological clause of [L3], which is valid for every n0, defines a map uAn+1:Tn+1(A)Sn+1(A), and [L3] makes it independent of the chosen effacement.

ihL2L3construct
2.1

Naturality and compatibility with the connecting morphisms follow exactly as in the homological case: use the covered naturality from [L3] on a common dominating injective effacement and then appeal to the choice-independence from [L3]. Thus adjoining un+1 extends the partial morphism one degree further.

L3step 1.2discharge-induction
3.1

Uniqueness in degree n+1 comes from the cokernel description in [L2]: once the degree-n component is fixed, item 19 gives only one possible map out of Tn+1(A). Hence the inductive extension is unique in every degree, and [L1] shows that T is universal.

L1L2step 1.1step 2.1discharge-induction

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