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* The Maranda-Verdier lemma?
@ 2011-10-06 19:14 Colin McLarty
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From: Colin McLarty @ 2011-10-06 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Many theorems on injectives reduce to the plain case of divisible
Abelian groups by the lemma that any functor A-->B with left exact
left adjoint and monic unit preserves injectives, and if A has enough
injectives so does B.

It is a fantastic caseof waht Peter Freyd has said: caegory theory
makes what should be trivial actually trivial.

The reasoning occurs in Eckmann-Schopf in 1953 but in a special case.
It was first published in the Trans. AMS in 1964 by Maranda, and by
Verdier the same year in mimeographed notes of SGA 4.

I refer to this lemma a lot lately, and I'd like a name for it.

So I'm asking here what people think of calling it Maranda-Verdier?

best, Colin


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