From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6311 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin McLarty Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Proving enough injectives for modules over a Grothendieck topos Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:58:29 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: Colin McLarty NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286746622 25412 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2010 21:37:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:37:02 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Oct 10 23:37:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.139]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P53Zl-0001hx-9G for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:37:01 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:36984) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P53Yi-0006GY-Jv; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:35:56 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P53Yf-0004VD-Ng for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:35:53 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6311 Archived-At: It seems to me there is a nearly elementary proof that the category of sheaves of modules over any sheaf of rings in a Grothendieck topos has enough injectives. I want to check it here because I do not see it published anywhere. People normally cite Grothendieck's Tohoku to prove the result. To give the outline: Johnstone TOPOS THEORY (p. 261) proves the category of Abelian groups in any Grothendieck topos has enough injectives. Eisenbud COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA (p. 621) uses adjunctions between module categories (over sets) to turn injectives in Abelian groups into enough injectives in any module category (over sets). These adjunctions lift to the categories of Modules in ringed toposes (E,R) over a fixed base topos E -- and so the category of R-Modules in E has enough injectives. In more detail, Eisenbud does not put it in terms of adjunctions. But in effect he shows the underlying group functor R-Mod-->AbGrp from R-modules to Abelian groups (over Set) has a right adjoint taking each Abelian group A to the R-module of additive functions from R to A (i.e. the R-module of Abelian group morphisms from the underlying group of R to A). Of course the underlying group functor is also left exact (indeed has a left adjoint, change of base from the integers Z to R). And a right adjoint to any exact functor preserves injectives. So take any R-module M, embed it additively into an injective Abelian group M>-->Q and map this back to R-modules by the right adjoint. It is easy to see that M has a monic to the domain of the morphism and so embeds in an injective R-module. Grothendieck in SGA 4 casts this in terms of ringed toposes. So far as I can see he does not talk about the right adjoint to the underlying group functor, and does not connect this to injectives, but it lifts routinely unless I am missing something. Every ring R in a topos E is also an additive Abelian group in E. On the other hand, for any Abelian group A in E we can form the group HOM(R,A) where I write HOM to indicate this is an E object and not the set of arrows. But HOM(R,A) is also an R-module by the action of R on arguments: any r \in R times a function f \in HOM(R,A) is the function that multiplies by r first and then applies f. So HOM(R,_) is a functor from Abelian groups in E to R-modules in E, and the same straightforward calculation as we use in Set shows it is right adjoint to the underlying group functor. So it preserves injectives, and the same step as in Eisenbud shows we can use it to embed every R-module into an injective R-module. Is that reasonably clear? Is it right? best, Colin [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]