Isolating a representable summand in a covering pullback #
For a Hom-finite linear category, coefficient-dual corepresentables retain the local endomorphism rings of their representing objects. This permits the finite-support local-ring argument which isolates one dual-corepresentable from an isomorphism between fixed-fibre direct sums.
A covariant linear representable has local endomorphism ring when its representing object does.
Evaluation at the identity exposes the representing morphism underlying the dual-corepresentable functor map.
The dual-corepresentable functor is faithful over a field.
Hom-finiteness makes the dual-corepresentable functor full by finite-dimensional double duality.
A dual linear corepresentable has local endomorphism ring when the category is Hom-finite and its representing object has local endomorphism ring.
Under the same hypotheses, a dual linear corepresentable is indecomposable.
If the fixed-source representable sum is isomorphic to a fixed-target sum of dual corepresentables, a chosen local source summand is isomorphic to one target summand. Finiteness comes from the support of the image of the source identity.