Irreducible morphisms and the categorical radical quotient #
This file formalizes the manuscript convention
Irr(X,Y) = rad(X,Y) / rad²(X,Y) for two representatives in a complete
indecomposable skeleton. The construction uses additive Hom-groups and is
therefore independent of a ground field.
Between indecomposable finite-length objects, a radical map is equivalently a nonsplit epimorphism, or equivalently a nonsplit monomorphism. The square is expressed by one factorization through an arbitrary finitely generated module: finite sums of radical composites consolidate into such a factorization through a finite biproduct. Thus this is the square of the categorical radical ideal, not the square of either endpoint endomorphism ring.
No algebra presentation or classification of modules is used.
The field-free radical Hom-group between two chosen indecomposables, realized as the morphisms which are not split epimorphisms.
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On the duplicate-free indecomposable skeleton, the same radical group consists of the morphisms which are not split monomorphisms.
A morphism out of a chosen indecomposable is categorical-radical exactly when it is not a split monomorphism, even when its target is an arbitrary finitely generated module.
A morphism into a chosen indecomposable is categorical-radical exactly when it is not a split epimorphism, even when its source is an arbitrary finitely generated module.
On chosen indecomposables, the nonsplit-epimorphism description agrees with the intrinsic categorical Jacobson radical, in its source-object convention.
A morphism between chosen indecomposables has a radical-square factorization if it factors through an arbitrary finitely generated module, with a nonsplit-monic first factor and a nonsplit-epic second factor.
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The arbitrary-middle predicate is literally one composite of two categorical-radical morphisms.
The field-free square of the categorical radical between two chosen indecomposables. Closure under addition consolidates two factorizations through their biproduct.
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Every radical-square morphism is radical.
The denominator rad²(X,Y) regarded as a subgroup of rad(X,Y).
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The manuscript's field-free quotient
Irr(X,Y) = rad(X,Y) / rad²(X,Y).
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Between chosen indecomposables, categorical irreducibility is exactly
membership in rad but not in rad².
The quotient rad(X,Y) / rad²(X,Y) is nontrivial exactly when there
is an irreducible morphism from X to Y.
Manuscript-style orientation of the nonzero-quotient criterion.