Linear covering functors #
This file records the direct-sum Hom-space definition of a covering functor. For a fixed lift of either endpoint, mapping morphisms and summing over all lifts of the other endpoint must give a bijection onto the Hom space downstairs. This is the categorical covering notion used in the Bongartz--Gabriel argument; surjectivity on objects is kept as a separate property.
A bijective linear map remains bijective after passing through a surjective quotient square, provided that every element which becomes zero downstairs already becomes zero in the source quotient. This is the linear algebra core used to descend covering-functor Hom equivalences through relation ideals.
The objects upstairs mapping literally to a chosen target object.
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Map the summand with fixed source X and varying lifted target into the
corresponding Hom space downstairs.
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Map the summand with fixed target Y and varying lifted source into the
corresponding Hom space downstairs.
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Inclusion of one fixed-source lifted Hom space into the target-fibre direct sum.
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Inclusion of one fixed-target lifted Hom space into the source-fibre direct sum.
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Precompose every fixed-target-fibre summand by one morphism upstairs.
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Postcompose every fixed-source-fibre summand by one morphism upstairs.
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Precomposition in a target fibre acts componentwise.
Postcomposition in a source fibre acts componentwise.
The fixed-source fibre map intertwines precomposition upstairs with precomposition by the mapped morphism downstairs.
The fixed-target fibre map intertwines postcomposition upstairs with postcomposition by the mapped morphism downstairs.
Successive postcomposition of a source-fibre family is postcomposition by the composite upstairs.
Successive precomposition of a target-fibre family is precomposition by the composite upstairs.
A linear covering functor: after fixing either lifted endpoint, the Hom space downstairs is the direct sum of the Hom spaces over all lifts of the other endpoint.
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The fixed-source direct-sum Hom equivalence supplied by a covering functor.
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The fixed-target direct-sum Hom equivalence supplied by a covering functor.
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Every linear covering functor is faithful: an individual Hom space is one summand of either covering decomposition.
The faithful structure carried by a linear covering functor.
A covering functor which is injective on objects is fully faithful.
Indeed, the fibre over F.obj Y then consists only of Y, so the
fixed-source covering isomorphism is just the ordinary map on the Hom space
X ⟶ Y.
A covering functor which is injective on objects, packaged as a fully faithful functor.
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A covering functor which is bijective on objects is an equivalence of categories.