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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:T0⇒S0.

[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
1.1basegiven

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

1.2ihL2L3construct

Suppose by induction that for some n≥0 we have already constructed natural transformations ui:Ti⇒Si for all i≤n, compatible with the connecting morphisms through degree n−1. For each object A, choose an injective effacement eA:A↣IA for Tn+1(A) using [L2]. The cohomological clause of [L3], which is valid for every n≥0, defines a map uAn+1:Tn+1(A)→Sn+1(A), and [L3] makes it independent of the chosen effacement.

2.1L3step 1.2discharge-induction

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.

3.1L1L2step 1.1step 2.1discharge-induction∎

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.

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