Universal property of the category of bounded chain complexes on exact categories, by Satoshi Mochizuki
The purpose of this note is to establish universal property of the category of
bounded chain complexes on an exact category. More accurately saying that we
define the notion of (bi)complicial categories which are exact categories with
the extra structures and
it is a simplification of the concept about Thomason-Trobaugh or Schlichting
complicial exact categories. For example, the category of bounded chain
complexes on an exact category has the natural (bi)complicial structure. The
first main theorem is that associating an exact category E with the category of
bounded chain complexes Ch_b(E) is the universal bicomplification. The theorem
is considered as a variant of Bökstedt-Neeman totalization functor construction
on a triangulated category. As usual completion functors are idempotent, the
bicomplification is also idempotent in some sense. More precise statement is
described as a derived analogue of Gillet-Waldhausen theorem.
Satoshi Mochizuki <mochi81@hotmail.com>