The Stacks project

Lemma 47.25.2. Let $\varphi : R \to A$ be a finite type map of Noetherian rings.

  1. If $\varphi $ is perfect, then

    1. $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet $ is in $D^ b_{\textit{Coh}}(A)$,

    2. $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet $ has finite tor dimension over $R$, and

    3. $A \to R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ A(\omega _{A/R}^\bullet , \omega _{A/R}^\bullet )$ is an isomorphism.

  2. If $\varphi $ is flat, then (1)(a), (1)(b), and (1)(c) hold and

    1. $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet $ is $R$-perfect (More on Algebra, Definition 15.83.1), and

    2. for every map $R \to k$ to a field the base change $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet \otimes _ A^\mathbf {L} (A \otimes _ R k)$ is a dualizing complex for $A \otimes _ R k$.

Proof. Assume $R \to A$ is perfect. Choose $R \to P \to A$ as in the definition of $\varphi ^!$. Then $A$ is perfect as a $P$-modue (More on Algebra, Lemma 15.82.2). This shows that $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet $ is in $D^ b_{\textit{Coh}}(A)$ by Lemma 47.24.2. This proves (1)(a). To show $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet $ has finite tor dimension as a complex of $R$-modules, observe that $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet = \varphi ^!(R) = R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits (A, P)[n]$ maps to $R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ P(A, P)[n]$ in $D(P)$, which is perfect in $D(P)$ (More on Algebra, Lemma 15.74.15), hence has finite tor dimension in $D(R)$ as $R \to P$ is flat. This proves (1)(b). The object $R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ A(\omega _{A/R}^\bullet , \omega _{A/R}^\bullet )$ of $D(A)$ maps in $D(P)$ to

\begin{align*} R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ P(\omega _{A/R}^\bullet , R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits (A, P)[n]) & = R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ P(R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ P(A, P)[n], P)[n] \\ & = R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ P(R\mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _ P(A, P), P) \end{align*}

This is equal to $A$ by the already used More on Algebra, Lemma 15.74.15. This proves (1)(c).

Assume $\varphi $ is flat. Then $R \to A$ is a perfect ring map (More on Algebra, Lemma 15.82.4) and we see that (1)(a), (1)(b), and (1)(c) hold. Of course, then $\omega _{A/R}^\bullet $ is $R$-perfect by (1)(a) and (1)(b) and the definitions. Let $R \to k$ be as in (2)(b). By Lemma 47.25.1 there is an isomorphism

\[ \omega _{A/R}^\bullet \otimes _ A^\mathbf {L} (A \otimes _ R k) \cong \omega ^\bullet _{A \otimes _ R k/k} \]

and the right hand side is a dualizing complex by Lemma 47.24.3. This finishes the proof. $\square$


Comments (2)

Comment #8352 by Bogdan on

It seems that (1) and (2) hold as long as is finite type and of finite Tor dimension.

Comment #8959 by on

Thanks for this remark. At the moment we have only defined relatively perfect complexes in the flat case, see Remark 36.35.14 for why. Note that with option (B) in that remark what you say would be correct. So I have simply restated this lemma in a way avoiding the notion of "relatively perfect" in the non-flat case. See here.


Post a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked.

In your comment you can use Markdown and LaTeX style mathematics (enclose it like $\pi$). A preview option is available if you wish to see how it works out (just click on the eye in the toolbar).

Unfortunately JavaScript is disabled in your browser, so the comment preview function will not work.

All contributions are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.




In order to prevent bots from posting comments, we would like you to prove that you are human. You can do this by filling in the name of the current tag in the following input field. As a reminder, this is tag 0BZW. Beware of the difference between the letter 'O' and the digit '0'.