The Stacks project

Lemma 13.16.3. Let $F : \mathcal{A} \to \mathcal{B}$ be an additive functor between abelian categories and assume $RF : D^{+}(\mathcal{A}) \to D^{+}(\mathcal{B})$ is everywhere defined.

  1. We have $R^ iF = 0$ for $i < 0$,

  2. $R^0F$ is left exact,

  3. the map $F \to R^0F$ is an isomorphism if and only if $F$ is left exact.

Proof. Let $A$ be an object of $\mathcal{A}$. Let $A[0] \to K^\bullet $ be any quasi-isomorphism. Then it is also true that $A[0] \to \tau _{\geq 0}K^\bullet $ is a quasi-isomorphism. Hence in the category $A[0]/\text{Qis}^{+}(\mathcal{A})$ the quasi-isomorphisms $s : A[0] \to K^\bullet $ with $K^ n = 0$ for $n < 0$ are cofinal. Thus it is clear that $H^ i(RF(A[0])) = 0$ for $i < 0$. Moreover, for such an $s$ the sequence

\[ 0 \to A \to K^0 \to K^1 \]

is exact. Hence if $F$ is left exact, then $0 \to F(A) \to F(K^0) \to F(K^1)$ is exact as well, and we see that $F(A) \to H^0(F(K^\bullet ))$ is an isomorphism for every $s : A[0] \to K^\bullet $ as above which implies that $H^0(RF(A[0])) = F(A)$.

Let $0 \to A \to B \to C \to 0$ be a short exact sequence of $\mathcal{A}$. By Lemma 13.12.1 we obtain a distinguished triangle $(A[0], B[0], C[0], a, b, c)$ in $D^{+}(\mathcal{A})$. From the long exact cohomology sequence (and the vanishing for $i < 0$ proved above) we deduce that $0 \to R^0F(A) \to R^0F(B) \to R^0F(C)$ is exact. Hence $R^0F$ is left exact. Of course this also proves that if $F \to R^0F$ is an isomorphism, then $F$ is left exact. $\square$


Comments (4)

Comment #7814 by Anonymous on

In the second sentence of the second paragraph of the proof, I think it should read "... we obtain a distinguished triangle ... in " instead of "... we obtain a distinguished triangle ... in ".

Comment #8400 by on

I don't know if it is worth to add any of this to the already existing proof, but in case it helps anyone (and maybe even my future self), here are additonal details to conclude that is an isomorphism provided that is left-exact: by what is already written (and maybe 17.5), there is a quasi-isomorphism , with for and a map satisfying Categories, Definition 4.22.1, (1). In particular, the composite is the identity and there are and in , with for , such that, inside , the map equals the composite . We claim that the image under of each of the maps in the last composite is an isomorphism (the first one gives ). Note that by what is already written in the proof, the images under of and are isos. This implies that the image under of must be an epimorphism. But it is also a split monomorphism; hence, it is an iso, and we win.

Comment #9012 by on

Thanks! I fixed it in a slightly different way because it suffered from the same pitfall as the previous lemma. See changes.


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