## The behavior of pure sheaves under functor Hom( F, -)

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We know that a submodule A of B is pure if and only if the functor $Hom(M, -)$ is exact on the sequence $0 \rightarrow A \rightarrow B \rightarrow C \rightarrow 0$ for every finitely presented module M. So, let X be a scheme and ${\cal G}$ be a subsheaf of ${\cal H}$. Is there any equivalent statement for pure sheaves. ($\cal G$ is pure in $\cal H$, if ${\cal G}(U)$ is pure in ${\cal H}(U)$ for every affine open subset U of X.)

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Perhaps you should assume $X$ to be qs qc to get the affine criterion out of a more general one. – Martin Brandenburg May 25 2011 at 10:47
I don't know what you mean by qs qc scheme. May you explain me more details, please? – Gholam May 28 2011 at 11:04

## 1 Answer

Let $\mathbf{A}$ be a cocomplete abelian category, such as any category of sheaves. An object $M$ is finitely presented if the representable functor $\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathbf{A}}(M,-)$ preserves filtered colimits. Now that you know what a finitely presentable object is, just mimick the definition you know of pure subobject. All this is standard.

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