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Atlas.TensorCategories.code.FittingLemmaInstance

An indecomposable object in an abelian (idempotent-complete) category has only the trivial idempotent endomorphisms, namely 0 and the identity. The proof splits the idempotent e and its complement 1 - e via the idempotent-completion to exhibit P as a binary biproduct, then applies indecomposability.

In a k-linear abelian category with finite-dimensional Hom spaces, every indecomposable object has a local endomorphism ring. This packages the categorical Fitting lemma: combine idem_trivial_of_indecomposable with the algebraic statement isLocalRing_of_finiteDimensional_of_no_nontrivial_idempotents.