Nonvanishing of the splitting-chain units #
The assembly of the Key Lemma's nonvanishing half: the chain unit
stage is the copair element of the symmetric-power duality datum,
up to the braiding of the module tensor product; so once the
symmetric-power datum satisfies the zigzag laws, a vanishing
stage unit kills the symmetric power. This is Deligne's
argument: δⁿ is the δ of a duality between the symmetric
powers (1.15.1), and the δ of a duality vanishes only on the
zero module.
The chain unit stage is the symmetric copair element, up to the braiding of the module tensor product: Deligne's 1.15.1 composite.
Nonvanishing of the chain unit stages: once the symmetric-power datum satisfies the zigzag laws, the stage unit detects the symmetric power.
Nonvanishing from the power-level zigzags: composing the detection with the symmetric-power inheritance.