Category
page 1Homological algebra
homological algebra
area of mathematics
commutative diagram
collection of maps in which all map compositions starting from the same set and ending with the same set give the same result
exact sequence
sequence of homomorphisms such that each kernel equals the preceding image
chain complex
in homological algebra, a structure consisting of a sequence of modules and a sequence of homomorphisms between consecutive modules such that the image of each homomorphism is included in the kernel of the next
abelian category
preadditive category with a zero object and all binary biproducts, kernels and cokernels in which all monomorphisms and epimorphisms are normal
snake lemma
tool used in mathematics
Weil conjectures
theorem
flat module
module such that taking the tensor product with it induces an exact functor
five lemma
lemma in category theory about commutative diagrams
Grothendieck group
Abelian group constructed universally from a commutative monoid
projective module
in algebra, a module that is the direct summand of a free module
torsion
elements of a module space sent to 0 by regular elements of a ring
injective module
module that makes certain exact sequences split
derived functor
homological construction in category theory

Tor functor
in homological algebra, the left derived functor of the tensor product of modules over a ring
Hodge structure
algebraic structure
Künneth theorem
theorem
section and retraction
two kinds of possible inverses of a morphism in a category
exact functor
functor that preserves short exact sequences
projective object
object 𝑃 in an abelian category such that hom(𝑃,–) is an exact functor to the category of abelian groups
Galois cohomology
Group comohology of Galois modules
Ext functor
derived functors of the Hom functor
motive
conjectural objects in algebraic geometry that provide a universal cohomology theory of varieties
resolution
in algebra, an exact sequence which is used to describe the structure of an object
nine lemma
category theory lemma about commutative diagrams
sheaf cohomology
right derived functors of the global sections functor Γ: AbSh → Ab
Lie algebra cohomology
algebraic construction of the cohomology of (the underlying manifold of) a simply connected Lie group in terms of its Lie algebra
universal coefficient theorem
Establish relationships between homology and cohomology theories

derived category
homotopy category of chain complexes in an abelian category with inverses to quasi-isomorphisms adjoined
group cohomology
cohomology theory associated to a group 𝐺 and a 𝐺‐module
Hochschild homology
homology theory for associative algebras over rings
projective representation
homomorphism G → PGL(V) from a group G to a projective linear group PGL(V) over a vector space V
etale cohomology
sheaf cohomology on the étale site
splitting lemma
lemma that, in an Abelian category, a short exact sequence, one of whose two morphisms admits a section or retraction into the middle term, is a direct sum
quasi-isomorphism
In homological algebra, a branch of mathematics, a quasi-isomorphism or quism is a morphism A → B of chain complexes (respectively, cochain complexes) such that the induced morphisms
Zig-zag lemma

tensor product of modules
operation that pairs a left and a right 𝑅‐module into an abelian group
crystalline cohomology
Weil cohomology theory for schemes over a base field, whose values are modules over the ring of Witt vectors over the base field, that replaces Zariski open sets by infinitesimal thickenings of Zariski open sets with divided power structures
triangulated category
category with the additional structure of a translation functor and a class of distinguished triangles
global dimension
homological property of mathematical rings
chain homotopy
Additive category in homological algebra
Koszul complex
construction of homological algebra used in commutative agebra
Deligne cohomology
principal ideal theorem
the theorem that extending ideals gives a mapping on the class group of an algebraic number field to the class group of its Hilbert class field, which sends all ideal classes to the class of a principal ideal
horseshoe lemma
algebraic statement
differential graded algebra
differential associative algebra with integer grading in which the differential has grading +1 (cohomological convention) or −1 (homological convention)
Eilenberg–Zilber theorem
theorem