construction of an injective resolution
The category of modules has enough injectives
.Let be a module, and let be an injective module
such that
is exact. Then, let be the image of in , and construct the factor module . Then, since the category of modules has enough injectives, we can find a module such that
is exact. induces a homomorphism , whose kernel is . We thus have an exact sequence
One can continue this process to construct injective modules for any (the resolution may terminate: for some with all ).