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Properties of quotient categories.

I asked this on math.stackexchange.com, but didn't get any answer. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category and $\mathcal{C}$ a localizing subcategory in the sense of Gabriel. (A …
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how to make the category of chain complexes into an $(\infty,1)$-category

Related to this question, I would like to know, if there is an explicit presentation of the $(\infty,1)$-category of a model category of abelian chain complexes, but this time in t …
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Why are the left exact functors from an abelian category to abelian groups cocomplete and have a injective generator?

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be an abelian category, $\mathcal{Ab}$ the category of abelian groups and $Lex(\mathcal{C}, \mathcal{B})$ the category of left exact functors between abelian cate …
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Applications and examples of quotient categories of abelian categories

I want to get motivated to learn more about quotient categories of abelian categories by a Serre subcategory or even by a localizing category as they are described in Pierre Gabrie …
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Why is $Lex(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{Ab})$ abelian? Does $Lex(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{Ab})\rightarrow Func(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{Ab})$ admit a left-adjoint?

What is the best way to show, that $Lex(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{Ab})$ is abelian, where $\mathcal{A}$ is an abelian category and $\mathcal{Ab}$ is the category of abelian groups from …
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Examples of applications of the Freyd-Mitchell embedding theorem.

The Freyd-Mitchell embedding theorem states the following: Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a small abelian category. There exists a unital ring $R$ and a full, faithful and exact functor …
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Cocomplete but not complete abelian category

This is a duplicate of the following question to which I did not receive any answer: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/238247/complete-but-not-cocomplete-category Let $\math …
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Recovering an abelian category out of its derived category

I'm trying to learn more about derived category stuff and my curiosity has made me to ask these questions. Sorry if I'm being sloppy, I'm a new learner. In Wikipedia it has been s …
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Any abelian category as filtered colimit of categories of projective modules

Recently I have heard somewhere that any (edit: small) abelian category can be expressed as the colimit of categories of projective modules over some rings. The remark was that thi …
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Why does tensor product in Ab(V) require colimits in V?

In Tom Leinster's book on operads, he gives Ab(V), the category of abelian groups in a symmetric monoidal category V, as an example of a multicategory that doesn't arise from a mon …
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Cov. right-exact additive functors that don’t commute with direct sums?

Background Recently, I have been writing up some notes on derived functors and I came across the Eilenberg-Watts theorems [1], which essentially explain why it is hard to find der …
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Additive functors preserving quasi-isomorphism

Let $F: \mathcal{A} \rightarrow \mathcal{B}$ be an additive functor between abelian categories (with enough injectives and projectives) and $K^\cdot, L^\cdot$ objects of $\textrm{C …
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A finite diagram in an abelian category which may not be locally small

This question was posted in StackExchange, but there has been no answer so far. This question is motivated by this. I will use the notations of my answer to this. We say a catego …
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Higher “Cartan-Eilenberg” Resolutions

I am a number theory graduate student learning a bit of homological algebra, and I am curious about higher complexes in abelian categories. I apologize if my post is slightly vague …
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Module category equivalent to graded module category?

Main Question Let $R$ be a graded ring, graded by the nonnegative integers. Denote by $\mathrm{gr}R-\mathrm{Mod}$ the category of $\mathbb{Z}$-graded left $R$-modules with morphi …

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