fully faithful inclusion of Q-vector spaces into Ab

Proposition

There exists a fully faithful inclusion of \(\mathrm{Vect}_{\mathbb{Q}}\) category vectk into Category Ab.

In other words: Let \(M,N\) be \(\mathbb{F}_p\) vector space and \(\varphi: M \rightarrow N\) a map between the underlying sets.
TFAE:

  1. \(\varphi\) is a group-homomorphism
  2. \(\varphi\) is a vectorspace-homomorphism

Proof

elementary proof (lineare algebra 1)

1) \(\implies\) 2)

Let \(\varphi: V \rightarrow W\) be a group-homomorphism between \(\mathbb{Q}\)-vector spaces.
So let \(\frac{p}{q} \in \mathbb{Q} \setminus \{0\}\) be a scalar and \(v \in V\).
Then we want to show that

\begin{align*} \varphi( \frac{p}{q} v) = \frac{p}{q} \varphi(v) \end{align*}

We know that \(\frac{p}{q} = \sum_{i=1}^p \frac{1}{q}\) and hence

\begin{align*} \varphi( \frac{p}{q} v) =& \varphi( \sum_{i=1}^p \frac{1}{q} v) \\ =& \sum_{i=1}^p \varphi(\frac{1}{q} v) \\ =& p \cdot \varphi( \frac{1}{q} v) \end{align*}

Now \(V,W\) are in particular uniquely divisible abelian group, so \(\frac{1}{q} v\) is characterized by the property that \(\sum_{i=1}^q \frac{1}{q} v = v\).
Analogously \(\frac{1}{q} \varphi(v)\) is characterized by \(\sum_{i=1}^q \frac{1}{q} \varphi(v) = \varphi(v)\).

Now this shows that \(\varphi(\frac{1}{q} v) = \frac{1}{q} \varphi(v)\) as both elements satisfy \(\sum_{i=1}^q x = v\) for \(x \in \{\frac{1}{q} \varphi(v), \varphi(\frac{1}{q} v)\}\), which determines them uniquely.

2) \(\implies\) 1)

special case

proov via localization (commutative algebra)

spectra (higher algebra)

use:

Date: nil

Author: Anton Zakrewski

Created: 2026-03-24 Di 18:37