Model category structures on chain complexes of sheaves

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Abstract: In this paper, we try to realize the unbounded derived category of an abelian category as the homotopy category of a Quillen model structure on the category of unbounded chain complexes. We construct such a model structure based on injective resolutions for an arbitrary Grothendieck category, as has apparently also been done by Morel. In particular, this works for sheaves on a ringed space, and for quasi-coherent sheaves on a quasi-compact, quasi-separated scheme. However, this injective model structure is not well suited to studying the derived tensor product, so we investigate other model structures. The most successful of these is the flat model structure on complexes of sheaves over a ringed space. This is based on flat resolutions, and is compatible with the tensor product. As a corollary, we get model categories of differential graded algebras of sheaves and differential graded modules over a given differential graded algebra of sheaves. This is the author's first attempt to understand sheaves, so comments from those more experienced with the subject are welcome.


Let \({\mathcal C}h(\mathcal{A})\) be the category of unbounded chain complexes in an abelian category \(\mathcal{A}\) obtained by adjoining formal inverses to all maps inducing homology isomorphisms. The category \({\mathcal C}h(\mathcal{A})\) is the unbounded derived category of \(\mathcal{A}\). A model structure on \({\mathcal C}h(\mathcal{A})\) is defined in the case where \(\mathcal{A}\) has a set of generators of finite projective dimension. The author uses this model structure to show, for instance: NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE1. Suppose that \(S\) is a noetherian scheme with enough injectives and is either finite-dimensional or separated. Let \({\mathcal {QC}}o(S)\) be the category of quasi-coherent sheaves on \(S\). Then, locally free sheaves of finite rank form a set of small weak generators for the derived category \(D({\mathcal {QC}}o(S))\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE2. Suppose that \((S,\mathcal{O})\) is a ringed space with finite hereditary global dimension. Then, NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(a) there is a cofibrantly generated proper model structure on \({\mathcal C}h(\mathcal{O}\text{-}{\mathcal M}od)\), called the flat model structure where weak equivalences are quasi-isomorphisms and the fibrations are the surjections with dimensionwise flasque kernel. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(b) The flat model structure on \({\mathcal C}h(\mathcal{O}\text{-}{\mathcal M}od)\) makes it into a symmetric monoidal category.




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