Derived categories for the working mathematician

Jan, 1999
13 pages
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  • AMS/IP Stud.Adv.Math. 23 (2001) 349-361
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Abstract:
It is becoming increasingly difficult for geometers and even physicists to avoid papers containing phrases like `triangulated category', not to mention derived functors. I will give some motivation for such things from algebraic geometry, and show how the concepts are already familiar from topology. This gives a natural and simple way to look at cohomology and other scary concepts in homological algebra like Ext, Tor, hypercohomology and spectral sequences.
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