2024/12/06 by Aurélien Djament, Djament, Aurélien, Antoine Touzé +1
Mathematics · #History and Theory of Mathematics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.15231
We study several structure aspects of functor categories from a small additive category to a module category, in particular the category F(A,K) of functors from finitely generated free modules over a commutative ring A to vector spaces over a field K -- such functors are sometimes called generic representations of linear groups over A with coefficients in K. We are especially interested with finitely generated functors of F(A,K) taking finite dimensional values. We prove that they can, under a mild extra assumption (always satisfied if the ring A is noetherian), be built from much better understood functors, namely polynomial functors (in the sense of Eilenberg-MacLane), or factorising at the source through reduction modulo a cofinite ideal of A. We deduce that such functors are always noetherian et that, if the ring A is finitely generated, they have finitely generated projective resolutions.Our methods rely mainly on the study of weight decompositions of functors and their cross-effects, our recent previous work with Vespa (Ann. ENS 2023) and elementary commutative algebra.