A generalization of Watts's theorem: right exact functors on module categories

DOI10.1080/00927872.2015.1065873zbMATH Open1353.18016arXiv0806.0832OpenAlexW1852625695MaRDI QIDQ5740581FDOQ5740581

Authors: A. Nyman, S. Paul Smith 

Publication date: 27 July 2016

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Watts's Theorem says that a right exact functor F:Mod R-->Mod S that commutes with direct sums is isomorphic to -otimes_R B where B is the R-S-bimodule FR. The main result in this paper is the following: if A is a cocomplete abelian category and F:Mod R --> A is a right exact functor commuting with direct sums, then F is isomorphic to - otimes_R B where B is a suitable R-module in A, i.e., a pair (B,f) consisting of an object B in A and a ring homomorphism f:R --> Hom_A(B,B). Part of the point is to give meaning to the notation -otimes_R B. That is done in the paper by Artin and Zhang on Abstract Hilbert Schemes. The present paper is a natural extension of some of the ideas in the first part of their paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0832

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zbMATH Keywords

tensor productWatts's Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative algebraic geometry (14A22) Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Functor categories, comma categories (18A25) Categories in geometry and topology (18F99)

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