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Effaceable homological delta functors are universal

Statement

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

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A homological delta functor S=(Sn,∂S) and a natural transformation u0:S0⇒T0.

[L1]

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

[L2]

Effaceability supplies admissible projective effacements, and the dimension-shift lemma makes the corresponding connecting maps monic (Effaceable homological delta functor in positive degrees, Dimension shift for a homological delta functor effaced in the middle).

[L3]

Item 19 defines the next-degree component from one chosen effacement, item 20 makes it independent of that choice, and item 21 preserves compatibility with connecting morphisms (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

Start with the given u0 as the degree-zero component.

1.2ihL2L3construct

Suppose by induction that for some n>0 we have already constructed natural transformations ui:Si⇒Ti for all i<n, and that these form a morphism of homological delta functors through degree n−1. For each object A, choose an effacement pA:PA↠A for the target value Tn(A) using [L2]. Then [L3] defines a map un(A):Sn(A)→Tn(A) from that effacement, and [L3] makes it independent of the chosen pA.

2.1L3step 1.2discharge-induction

To check naturality of the family from step 1.2, compare two chosen effacements over a morphism f:A→B by a common dominating effacement. The covered naturality from [L3] applies to that dominating choice, and the choice independence from [L3] transports the result back to the original objects. Thus un is natural. The same comparison argument, now applied over a short exact sequence, together with the connecting-map compatibility from [L3], shows that adjoining un preserves the morphism-of-delta-functors condition in degree n.

3.1L1L2step 1.1step 2.1discharge-induction∎

This constructs a morphism u:S→T extending u0 in every degree. For uniqueness, let vn be any other degree-n component compatible with the already fixed lower-degree data. Choose an effacement p:P↠A for Tn(A). Because un and vn have the same lower-degree compatibility, their composites with ∂nT agree. The map ∂nT is monic by [L2], so un(A)=vn(A). Hence the extension is unique in each degree, and [L1] identifies T as universal.

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