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The limit of a “split” tower of K-injective complexes is K-injective.

Lemma 13.31.8. Let \mathcal{A} be an abelian category. Let

\ldots \to I_3^\bullet \to I_2^\bullet \to I_1^\bullet

be an inverse system of complexes. Assume

  1. each I_ n^\bullet is K-injective,

  2. each map I_{n + 1}^ m \to I_ n^ m is a split surjection,

  3. the limits I^ m = \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits I_ n^ m exist.

Then the complex I^\bullet is K-injective.

Proof. We urge the reader to skip the proof of this lemma. Let M^\bullet be an acyclic complex. Let us abbreviate H_ n(a, b) = \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M^ a, I_ n^ b). With this notation \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _{K(\mathcal{A})}(M^\bullet , I^\bullet ) is the cohomology of the complex

\prod _ m \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits \limits _ n H_ n(m, m - 2) \to \prod _ m \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits \limits _ n H_ n(m, m - 1) \to \prod _ m \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits \limits _ n H_ n(m, m) \to \prod _ m \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits \limits _ n H_ n(m, m + 1)

in the third spot from the left. We may exchange the order of \prod and \mathop{\mathrm{lim}}\nolimits and each of the complexes

\prod _ m H_ n(m, m - 2) \to \prod _ m H_ n(m, m - 1) \to \prod _ m H_ n(m, m) \to \prod _ m H_ n(m, m + 1)

is exact by assumption (1). By assumption (2) the maps in the systems

\ldots \to \prod _ m H_3(m, m - 2) \to \prod _ m H_2(m, m - 2) \to \prod _ m H_1(m, m - 2)

are surjective. Thus the lemma follows from Homology, Lemma 12.31.4. \square


Comments (3)

Comment #853 by Bhargav Bhatt on

Suggested slogan: The limit of a "split" tower of K-injective complexes is K-injective.

Comment #4337 by Manuel Hoff on

In the formulation of the Lemma, it is mentioned two times that the complexes are K-injective (one time in the second sentence and a second time in (1)).

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