The Stacks project

Lemma 21.48.7. Let $(\mathcal{C}, \mathcal{O})$ be a ringed site. Let $M$ be an object of $D(\mathcal{O})$. If $M$ has a left dual in the monoidal category $D(\mathcal{O})$ (Categories, Definition 4.43.5) then $M$ is perfect and the left dual is as constructed in Example 21.48.6.

Proof. Let $N, \eta , \epsilon $ be a left dual. Observe that for any object $U$ of $\mathcal{C}$ the restriction $N|_ U, \eta |_ U, \epsilon |_ U$ is a left dual for $M|_ U$.

Let $U$ be an object of $\mathcal{C}$. It suffices to find a covering $\{ U_ i \to U\} _{i \in I}$ of $\mathcal{C}$ such that $M|_{U_ i}$ is a perfect object of $D(\mathcal{O}_{U_ i})$. Hence we may replace $\mathcal{C}, \mathcal{O}, M, N, \eta , \epsilon $ by $\mathcal{C}/U, \mathcal{O}_ U, M|_ U, N|_ U, \eta |_ U, \epsilon |_ U$ and assume $\mathcal{C}$ has a final object $X$. Moreover, during the proof we can (finitely often) replace $X$ by the members of a covering $\{ U_ i \to X\} $ of $X$.

We are going to use the following argument several times. Choose any complex $\mathcal{M}^\bullet $ of $\mathcal{O}$-modules representing $M$. Choose a K-flat complex $\mathcal{N}^\bullet $ representing $N$ whose terms are flat $\mathcal{O}$-modules, see Lemma 21.17.11. Consider the map

\[ \eta : \mathcal{O} \to \text{Tot}(\mathcal{M}^\bullet \otimes _\mathcal {O} \mathcal{N}^\bullet ) \]

After replacing $X$ by the members of a covering, we can find an integer $N$ and for $i = 1, \ldots , N$ integers $n_ i \in \mathbf{Z}$ and sections $f_ i$ and $g_ i$ of $\mathcal{M}^{n_ i}$ and $\mathcal{N}^{-n_ i}$ such that

\[ \eta (1) = \sum \nolimits _ i f_ i \otimes g_ i \]

Let $\mathcal{K}^\bullet \subset \mathcal{M}^\bullet $ be any subcomplex of $\mathcal{O}$-modules containing the sections $f_ i$ for $i = 1, \ldots , N$. Since $\text{Tot}(\mathcal{K}^\bullet \otimes _\mathcal {O} \mathcal{N}^\bullet ) \subset \text{Tot}(\mathcal{M}^\bullet \otimes _\mathcal {O} \mathcal{N}^\bullet )$ by flatness of the modules $\mathcal{N}^ n$, we see that $\eta $ factors through

\[ \tilde\eta : \mathcal{O} \to \text{Tot}(\mathcal{K}^\bullet \otimes _\mathcal {O} \mathcal{N}^\bullet ) \]

Denoting $K$ the object of $D(\mathcal{O})$ represented by $\mathcal{K}^\bullet $ we find a commutative diagram

\[ \xymatrix{ M \ar[rr]_-{\eta \otimes 1} \ar[rrd]_{\tilde\eta \otimes 1} & & M \otimes ^\mathbf {L} N \otimes ^\mathbf {L} M \ar[r]_-{1 \otimes \epsilon } & M \\ & & K \otimes ^\mathbf {L} N \otimes ^\mathbf {L} M \ar[u] \ar[r]^-{1 \otimes \epsilon } & K \ar[u] } \]

Since the composition of the upper row is the identity on $M$ we conclude that $M$ is a direct summand of $K$ in $D(\mathcal{O})$.

As a first use of the argument above, we can choose the subcomplex $\mathcal{K}^\bullet = \sigma _{\geq a} \tau _{\leq b}\mathcal{M}^\bullet $ with $a < n_ i < b$ for $i = 1, \ldots , N$. Thus $M$ is a direct summand in $D(\mathcal{O})$ of a bounded complex and we conclude we may assume $M$ is in $D^ b(\mathcal{O})$. (Recall that the process above involves replacing $X$ by the members of a covering.)

Since $M$ is in $D^ b(\mathcal{O})$ we may choose $\mathcal{M}^\bullet $ to be a bounded above complex of flat modules (by Modules, Lemma 17.17.6 and Derived Categories, Lemma 13.15.4). Then we can choose $\mathcal{K}^\bullet = \sigma _{\geq a}\mathcal{M}^\bullet $ with $a < n_ i$ for $i = 1, \ldots , N$ in the argument above. Thus we find that we may assume $M$ is a direct summand in $D(\mathcal{O})$ of a bounded complex of flat modules. In particular, we find $M$ has finite tor amplitude.

Say $M$ has tor amplitude in $[a, b]$. Assuming $M$ is $m$-pseudo-coherent we are going to show that (after replacing $X$ by the members of a covering) we may assume $M$ is $(m - 1)$-pseudo-coherent. This will finish the proof by Lemma 21.47.3 and the fact that $M$ is $(b + 1)$-pseudo-coherent in any case. After replacing $X$ by the members of a covering we may assume there exists a strictly perfect complex $\mathcal{E}^\bullet $ and a map $\alpha : \mathcal{E}^\bullet \to M$ in $D(\mathcal{O})$ such that $H^ i(\alpha )$ is an isomorphism for $i > m$ and surjective for $i = m$. We may and do assume that $\mathcal{E}^ i = 0$ for $i < m$. Choose a distinguished triangle

\[ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \to M \to L \to \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1] \]

Observe that $H^ i(L) = 0$ for $i \geq m$. Thus we may represent $L$ by a complex $\mathcal{L}^\bullet $ with $\mathcal{L}^ i = 0$ for $i \geq m$. The map $L \to \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1]$ is given by a map of complexes $\mathcal{L}^\bullet \to \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1]$ which is zero in all degrees except in degree $m - 1$ where we obtain a map $\mathcal{L}^{m - 1} \to \mathcal{E}^ m$, see Derived Categories, Lemma 13.27.3. Then $M$ is represented by the complex

\[ \mathcal{M}^\bullet : \ldots \to \mathcal{L}^{m - 2} \to \mathcal{L}^{m - 1} \to \mathcal{E}^ m \to \mathcal{E}^{m + 1} \to \ldots \]

Apply the discussion in the second paragraph to this complex to get sections $f_ i$ of $\mathcal{M}^{n_ i}$ for $i = 1, \ldots , N$. For $n < m$ let $\mathcal{K}^ n \subset \mathcal{L}^ n$ be the $\mathcal{O}$-submodule generated by the sections $f_ i$ for $n_ i = n$ and $d(f_ i)$ for $n_ i = n - 1$. For $n \geq m$ set $\mathcal{K}^ n = \mathcal{E}^ n$. Clearly, we have a morphism of distinguished triangles

\[ \xymatrix{ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[r] & \mathcal{M}^\bullet \ar[r] & \mathcal{L}^\bullet \ar[r] & \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1] \\ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar[u] & \mathcal{K}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar[u] & \sigma _{\leq m - 1}\mathcal{K}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar[u] & \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1] \ar[u] } \]

where all the morphisms are as indicated above. Denote $K$ the object of $D(\mathcal{O})$ corresponding to the complex $\mathcal{K}^\bullet $. By the arguments in the second paragraph of the proof we obtain a morphism $s : M \to K$ in $D(\mathcal{O})$ such that the composition $M \to K \to M$ is the identity on $M$. We don't know that the diagram

\[ \xymatrix{ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[r] & \mathcal{K}^\bullet \ar@{=}[r] & K \\ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[u]^{\text{id}} \ar[r]^ i & \mathcal{M}^\bullet \ar@{=}[r] & M \ar[u]_ s } \]

commutes, but we do know it commutes after composing with the map $K \to M$. By Lemma 21.44.8 after replacing $X$ by the members of a covering, we may assume that $s \circ i$ is given by a map of complexes $\sigma : \mathcal{E}^\bullet \to \mathcal{K}^\bullet $. By the same lemma we may assume the composition of $\sigma $ with the inclusion $\mathcal{K}^\bullet \subset \mathcal{M}^\bullet $ is homotopic to zero by some homotopy $\{ h^ i : \mathcal{E}^ i \to \mathcal{M}^{i - 1}\} $. Thus, after replacing $\mathcal{K}^{m - 1}$ by $\mathcal{K}^{m - 1} + \mathop{\mathrm{Im}}(h^ m)$ (note that after doing this it is still the case that $\mathcal{K}^{m - 1}$ is generated by finitely many global sections), we see that $\sigma $ itself is homotopic to zero! This means that we have a commutative solid diagram

\[ \xymatrix{ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[r] & M \ar[r] & \mathcal{L}^\bullet \ar[r] & \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1] \\ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar[u] & K \ar[r] \ar[u] & \sigma _{\leq m - 1}\mathcal{K}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar[u] & \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1] \ar[u] \\ \mathcal{E}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar[u] & M \ar[r] \ar[u]^ s & \mathcal{L}^\bullet \ar[r] \ar@{..>}[u] & \mathcal{E}^\bullet [1] \ar[u] } \]

By the axioms of triangulated categories we obtain a dotted arrow fitting into the diagram. Looking at cohomology sheaves in degree $m - 1$ we see that we obtain

\[ \xymatrix{ H^{m - 1}(M) \ar[r] & H^{m - 1}(\mathcal{L}^\bullet ) \ar[r] & H^ m(\mathcal{E}^\bullet ) \\ H^{m - 1}(K) \ar[r] \ar[u] & H^{m - 1}(\sigma _{\leq m - 1}\mathcal{K}^\bullet ) \ar[r] \ar[u] & H^ m(\mathcal{E}^\bullet ) \ar[u] \\ H^{m - 1}(M) \ar[r] \ar[u] & H^{m - 1}(\mathcal{L}^\bullet ) \ar[r] \ar[u] & H^ m(\mathcal{E}^\bullet ) \ar[u] } \]

Since the vertical compositions are the identity in both the left and right column, we conclude the vertical composition $H^{m - 1}(\mathcal{L}^\bullet ) \to H^{m - 1}(\sigma _{\leq m - 1}\mathcal{K}^\bullet ) \to H^{m - 1}(\mathcal{L}^\bullet )$ in the middle is surjective! In particular $H^{m - 1}(\sigma _{\leq m - 1}\mathcal{K}^\bullet ) \to H^{m - 1}(\mathcal{L}^\bullet )$ is surjective. Using the induced map of long exact sequences of cohomology sheaves from the morphism of triangles above, a diagram chase shows this implies $H^ i(K) \to H^ i(M)$ is an isomorphism for $i \geq m$ and surjective for $i = m - 1$. By construction we can choose an $r \geq 0$ and a surjection $\mathcal{O}^{\oplus r} \to \mathcal{K}^{m - 1}$. Then the composition

\[ (\mathcal{O}^{\oplus r} \to \mathcal{E}^ m \to \mathcal{E}^{m + 1} \to \ldots ) \longrightarrow K \longrightarrow M \]

induces an isomorphism on cohomology sheaves in degrees $\geq m$ and a surjection in degree $m - 1$ and the proof is complete. $\square$


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