Homological full-and-faithfulness of comodule inclusion and contramodule forgetful functors
Leonid Positselski
TL;DR
The paper characterizes when the comodule inclusion Υ: C{--Comod} → C^{*}{--Mod} and the contramodule forgetful Θ: C{--Contra} → C^{*}{--Mod} induce fully faithful triangulated functors on derived categories, tying this to the finite dimensionality of Ext_C^n(k,k) for all n. It introduces the notion of weakly finitely Koszul coalgebras and establishes equivalences between bounded/below and bounded/above derived full faithfulness and Ext-vanishing conditions, as well as equivalences for contramodules via Eklof and duality arguments. The work also analyzes the half-bounded derived categories, co-Noetherian and cocoherent conilpotent coalgebras, and culminates with the cocommutative coconilpotent case, where C^* is a complete Noetherian local ring and the rational/discrete modules provide a concrete bridge between comodules/contramodules and C^*-modules. Overall, it provides a precise, cohomological criterion for full faithfulness and connects homological dimensions to derived-category behavior in the comod/contra-C^*-module setting.
Abstract
In this paper we consider a conilpotent coalgebra $C$ over a field $k$. Let $Υ\colon C\textsf{-Comod}\longrightarrow C^*\textsf{-Mod}$ be the natural functor of inclusion of the category of $C$-comodules into the category of $C^*$-modules, and let $Θ\colon C\textsf{-Contra}\longrightarrow C^*\textsf{-Mod}$ be the natural forgetful functor. We prove that the functor $Υ$ induces a fully faithful triangulated functor on bounded (below) derived categories if and only if the functor $Θ$ induces a fully faithful triangulated functor on bounded (above) derived categories, and if and only if the $k$-vector space $\operatorname{Ext}_C^n(k,k)$ is finite-dimensional for all $n\ge0$. We call such coalgebras "weakly finitely Koszul".
