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A perfect affine module sheaf admits a finite projective resolution
PDF p. 1: Introduction: Murthy critical-rank splitting criterion; PDF p. 17: Corollary 6.10 proof: final Murthy splitting application
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice and fix compatible Grothendieck universes containing , the commutative unital ring , the affine scheme and the module data, with larger universes for the supplied derived categories. Universe existence is a separate assumption. Let be an -module and let be its associated sheaf. If is perfect, then admits a finite projective resolution: an exact sequence with and each finitely generated projective. No noetherianity or regularity of is required.
Here places a module or sheaf in cochain degree zero. A cochain complex has maps with and cohomology ; bounded means zero outside a finite interval. Perfectness on means locally equivalent to a bounded complex of finite locally free sheaves, where finite locally free means locally a finite direct sum of copies of the structure sheaf.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The ring, module, perfect associated sheaf, AC and universe assumptions in the Statement.
Goal: Produce the stated finite projective resolution.
AC and the compatible universe closure convention are inherited by the affine derived equivalence. Universe existence and inclusion of are explicitly assumed. The Axiom of Choice, Grothendieck universe closure convention
Degreewise associated sheaf is a fully faithful derived equivalence on affine schemes and identifies the perfect objects with bounded complexes of finite projective modules. Thus the given perfect sheaf has a representative with such a bounded complex, and this actual functor also takes to . Enhanced affine perfect equivalence, Perfect complexes over a ring and its graded version, Module sheaf on an affine scheme
Finite projective means finitely generated and having the lifting property through surjective module maps. A direct summand of a finite projective module is finite projective: restrict a lift from the ambient module to prove projectivity, and project a finite generating list to prove finite generation. Projective modules and the lifting property, Generated submodule, cyclic and finitely generated modules, module basis and free module
Use the cochain convention in the Statement and the derived category obtained by inverting quasi-isomorphisms. Quasi-isomorphisms induce cohomology isomorphisms; consequently a zigzag of them preserves every cohomology module. Exact module sequences have image equal to kernel at each term. Cochain complex in an abelian category, Derived category of an abelian category, Exact sequences and short exact sequences of modules, Perfect complexes over a ring and its graded version
Proof
By [F1] choose a bounded finite-projective complex whose associated sheaf complex represents . Full faithfulness reflects this equivalence to in the module derived category. By [F3], and for . If the greatest nonzero degree is positive, vanishing of says is onto. Lift the identity of through this surjection by [F2], obtaining a section . The kernel is a direct summand: the maps , , and are inverse. Hence is finite projective. The preceding differential lands in because consecutive differentials compose to zero. Replace by and discard ; the removed summand is the two-term identity complex , so cohomology is unchanged. Repeat finitely many times to obtain a bounded finite-projective complex concentrated in degrees at most zero, still with only . If there were no positive terms, take . The zero complex is allowed.
Since , the quotient map is onto with kernel . For each negative degree, vanishing cohomology gives . At the leftmost nonzero degree the preceding term is zero, so its differential is injective. Thus, putting and adding zero terms if needed, the augmented sequence is exact and finite, with finite projective terms. If is concentrated in degree zero this is the length-zero resolution; if the all-zero resolution is permitted. AC and the universe assumptions enter through [F1]; splitting each of the finitely many surjections uses only the projective lifting property. This proves the claim without additional ring hypotheses.
Depends on
- Enhanced affine perfect equivalence
- Perfect complexes over a ring and its graded version
- Module sheaf on an affine scheme
- Projective modules and the lifting property
- Generated submodule, cyclic and finitely generated modules, module basis and free module
- Cochain complex in an abelian category
- Derived category of an abelian category
- Exact sequences and short exact sequences of modules
- The Axiom of Choice
- Grothendieck universe closure convention
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