Let A be a commutative ring, and let a be a finitely generated Let A be a commutative ring, and let a be a finitely generated ideal in A. The category of A-modules is denoted by M(A). There are two functors on the category M(A) that the ideal a determines: the a-torsion functor Γ a , and the aadic completion functor Λ a . These are idempotent additive functors: Γ a • Γ a ∼ = Γ a and Λ a • Λ a ∼ = Λ a .The functors Γ a and Λ a seem as though they could be adjoint to each other. This is false however. What is true is that under suitable assumptions, the derived functors RΓ a , LΛ a :are adjoint to each other. Here D(A) is the (unbounded) derived category of Amodules. The most general condition under which this is known to hold is when the ideal a is weakly proregular. By definition, the ideal a is weakly proregular if it can be generated by a weakly proregular sequence. A sequence of elements a = (a 1 , . . . , a n ) in A is called weakly proregular if a rather complicated condition is satisfied by the Koszul complexes associated to powers of a; see Definition 4.1. This condition was first stated, without a name, by A. Grothendieck (see [LC] and [SGA2]); the name was only given by L. Alonso, A. Jeremias and J. Lipman in [AJL, Correction]. If A is noetherian, then every ideal in it is weakly proregular; but there are many non-noetherian examples (see Examples 4.10-4.12). The next theorem is the culmination of results by Grothendieck [LC], [SGA2]; E. Matlis [Ma]; J.P.C. Greenlees and J.P. May [GM]; Alonso, Jeremias and Lipman [AJL]; P. Schenzel [Sn]; M. Kashiwara and P. Schapira [KS3]; and M. Porta, L. Shaul and Yekutieli [PSY1]. There is parallel recent work on these matters by L. Positselski [Po]. Let a ⊆ A be a finitely generated ideal. A complex M ∈ D(A) is called derived a-torsion if the canonical morphism RΓ a (M ) → M is an isomorphism. Similarly, a complex M ∈ D(A) is called derived a-adically complete if the canonical morphism M → LΛ a (M ) is an isomorphism. (In [PSY1] these complexes were called cohomologically complete and cohomologically torsion, respectively; but now we realize that the adjective "derived" is better suited than "cohomologically". See Definition 3.7 below.) We denote by D(A) a-tor and D(A) a-com the full subcategory of D(A) on the derived a-torsion and the derived a-adically complete complexes, respectively. These are full triangulated subcategories.Theorem 0.1 (MGM Equivalence, [PSY1]). Let a be a weakly proregular ideal in a commutative ring A.(1) The functor LΛ a is right adjoint to the functor RΓ a .(2) The functors RΓ a and LΛ a are idempotent. (3) The categories D(A) a-tor and D(A) a-com are the essential images of the functors RΓ a and LΛ a , respectively. (4) The functor LΛ a : D(A) a-tor → D(A) a-comis an equivalence of triangulated categories, with quasi-inverse RΓ a .Actually, item (1) of this theorem is usually called GM Duality, and it is [PSY1, Erratum, Theorem 9]. Item (2) means that RΓ a •RΓ a ∼ = RΓ a and LΛ a •LΛ a ∼ = LΛ a .