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DerivedAlgGeo.Algebra.Category.ModuleCat.LinearDual.Exact

Exact linear duality on modules over a field #

Over a field, algebraic linear duality sends a module V to Vᵛ = Hom(V, k). The contravariant additive functor is defined in CategoryTheory/ModuleCat/LinearDual.lean; this file proves that it is exact: it takes short exact sequences to short exact sequences and preserves finite limits and colimits. Its derived lift is Algebra/Homology/DerivedCategory/LinearDual.lean.

Linear duality reverses a short exact sequence of vector spaces to a short exact sequence.

Exactness of algebraic linear duality, in the form Mathlib's derived-functor construction consumes.