Adjoint Associativity

Remarks, (i) In fact, the A-functors RTfom and are defined only up to canonical isomorphism, by universal properties, as in (2.5.9). We leave it to the reader to verify that the map in (2.6.1) (to be constructed below) is compatible, in the obvious sense, with such canonical isomorphisms. 

Proof of (2.6.1). We discuss the proof at several levels of pedantry, beginning with the argument, in full, given in [I, p. 151, Lemme 7.4] (see also [Sp, p. 147, Prop. 6.6]) Resolve C injectively and B flatly.  

This argument can be expanded as follows. Choose quasi-isomorphisms 

But we really should check that this isomorphism does not depend on the chosen quasi-isomorphisms, and that it is in fact A-functorial. This can be quite tedious. The following remarks outline a method for managing such verifications. The basic point is (2.6.4) below. 

Let M be a set. An M-category is an additive category C plus a map t M Hom(C, C) from M into the set of additive functors from C to C, such that with = t m) it holds that TioTj = TjoTi for aU i,j G M. Such an M-category will be denoted Cm, the map / or equivalently, the coimnuting family T-m)m M—understood to have been specified and when the context renders it superfluous, the subscript M may be omitted. 

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