Kernels of minimal right almost-split epimorphisms #
This file proves the kernel half of the abstract Auslander--Reiten sequence theorem needed for mesh rotation. In an abelian category, the kernel inclusion of a right-minimal right almost-split epimorphism is left almost split. For finite-length finitely generated modules its source is indecomposable and noninjective. At a chosen indecomposable endpoint the kernel inclusion is also left minimal.
No presentation or classification of an algebra or of its modules is used.
The kernel inclusion of a right-minimal right almost-split epimorphism is left almost split.
A left almost-split monomorphism cannot start at an injective object.
The source of a left almost-split morphism of finitely generated modules is indecomposable.
A right almost-split map to a nonprojective chosen indecomposable is epic.
Once its kernel inclusion is left almost split, a right almost-split epimorphism to a chosen indecomposable has a left-minimal kernel inclusion.
The kernel of a chosen minimal right almost-split map at a nonprojective endpoint is the start of a minimal left almost-split map and is an indecomposable noninjective module.