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Lemma 92.16.1. In the situation above we have

  1. There is a canonical element $\xi \in \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^2_ B(L_{B/A}, N)$ whose vanishing is a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence of a solution to (92.16.0.1).

  2. If there exists a solution, then the set of isomorphism classes of solutions is principal homogeneous under $\mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(L_{B/A}, N)$.

  3. Given a solution $B'$, the set of automorphisms of $B'$ fitting into (92.16.0.1) is canonically isomorphic to $\mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^0_ B(L_{B/A}, N)$.

Proof. Via the identifications $\mathop{N\! L}\nolimits _{B/A} = \tau _{\geq -1}L_{B/A}$ (Lemma 92.11.3) and $H^0(L_{B/A}) = \Omega _{B/A}$ (Lemma 92.4.5) we have seen parts (2) and (3) in Deformation Theory, Lemmas 91.2.1 and 91.2.2.

Proof of (1). Roughly speaking, this follows from the discussion in Deformation Theory, Remark 91.2.8 by replacing the naive cotangent complex by the full cotangent complex. Here is a more detailed explanation. By Deformation Theory, Lemma 91.2.7 and Remark 91.2.8 there exists an element

\[ \xi ' \in \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ A(\mathop{N\! L}\nolimits _{A/A'}, N) = \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(\mathop{N\! L}\nolimits _{A/A'} \otimes _ A^\mathbf {L} B, N) = \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(L_{A/A'} \otimes _ A^\mathbf {L} B, N) \]

(for the equalities see Deformation Theory, Remark 91.2.8 and use that $\mathop{N\! L}\nolimits _{A'/A} = \tau _{\geq -1} L_{A'/A}$) such that a solution exists if and only if this element is in the image of the map

\[ \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(\mathop{N\! L}\nolimits _{B/A'}, N) = \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(L_{B/A'}, N) \longrightarrow \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(L_{A/A'} \otimes _ A^\mathbf {L} B, N) \]

The distinguished triangle (92.7.0.1) for $A' \to A \to B$ gives rise to a long exact sequence

\[ \ldots \to \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(L_{B/A'}, N) \to \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^1_ B(L_{A/A'} \otimes _ A^\mathbf {L} B, N) \to \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits ^2_ B(L_{B/A}, N) \to \ldots \]

Hence taking $\xi $ the image of $\xi '$ works. $\square$


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