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Effaceable cohomological delta functors are universal
Statement
Let be a cohomological delta functor on an abelian category. If is effaceable in positive degrees by injectives, then is universal.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A cohomological delta functor and a natural transformation .
Universality for a cohomological delta functor means unique extension of to a morphism of cohomological delta functors (Universal delta functor, Morphism of cohomological delta functors).
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).
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
Set the degree-zero component to be the given map .
Suppose by induction that for some we have already constructed natural transformations for all , compatible with the connecting morphisms through degree . For each object , choose an injective effacement for using [L2]. The cohomological clause of [L3], which is valid for every , defines a map , and [L3] makes it independent of the chosen effacement.
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 extends the partial morphism one degree further.
Uniqueness in degree comes from the cokernel description in [L2]: once the degree- component is fixed, item 19 gives only one possible map out of . Hence the inductive extension is unique in every degree, and [L1] shows that is universal.
Depends on
Universal delta functor
Morphism of cohomological delta functors
Effaceable cohomological delta functor in positive degrees
Dimension shift for a cohomological delta functor effaced in the middle
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