The Stacks project

Remark 23.3.5. The forgetful functor $(A, I, \gamma ) \mapsto A$ does not commute with colimits. For example, let

\[ \xymatrix{ (B, J, \delta ) \ar[r] & (B'', J'', \delta '') \\ (A, I, \gamma ) \ar[r] \ar[u] & (B', J', \delta ') \ar[u] } \]

be a pushout in the category of divided power rings. Then in general the map $B \otimes _ A B' \to B''$ isn't an isomorphism. (It is always surjective.) An explicit example is given by $(A, I, \gamma ) = (\mathbf{Z}, (0), \emptyset )$, $(B, J, \delta ) = (\mathbf{Z}/4\mathbf{Z}, 2\mathbf{Z}/4\mathbf{Z}, \delta )$, and $(B', J', \delta ') = (\mathbf{Z}/4\mathbf{Z}, 2\mathbf{Z}/4\mathbf{Z}, \delta ')$ where $\delta _2(2) = 2$ and $\delta '_2(2) = 0$. More precisely, using Lemma 23.5.3 we let $\delta $, resp. $\delta '$ be the unique divided power structure on $J$, resp. $J'$ such that $\delta _2 : J \to J$, resp. $\delta '_2 : J' \to J'$ is the map $0 \mapsto 0, 2 \mapsto 2$, resp. $0 \mapsto 0, 2 \mapsto 0$. Then $(B'', J'', \delta '') = (\mathbf{F}_2, (0), \emptyset )$ which doesn't agree with the tensor product. However, note that it is always true that

\[ B''/J'' = B/J \otimes _{A/I} B'/J' \]

as can be seen from the universal property of the pushout by considering maps into divided power algebras of the form $(C, (0), \emptyset )$.

Comments (3)

Comment #7050 by nkym on

is not a divided power structure since .

Comment #7051 by on

Indeed, we should set and so on. A divided power structure does exist because we can apply Lemma 23.5.3 to the map mapping to and to . Thanks for pointing this out! I will fix this the next time I go through all the comments.

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