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Computing the induced homomorphisms of derived functors using acyclic resolutions

Let's suppose that $F\colon \mathcal A\to \mathcal B$ is a right exact additive functor between abelian categories such that $\mathcal A$ has enough projectives. Standard references shows that if $Q_\...
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Algebra of finite width matrices

$\DeclareMathOperator\FWM{FWM}\DeclareMathOperator\End{End}$For any ring $R$ there's an algebra of finite width matrices with entries in $R$. By finite width matrices I mean the ones that have only ...
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When does the canonical $t$-structure restrict to perfect complexes?

I am interested in non-Noetherian(!) rings such that the canonical $t$-structure on $D(R)$ (the derived category of left $R$-modules) restricts to perfect complexes i.e. to the subcategory of ...
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What sort of ring-theoretic properties does the representation ring of a compact Lie group possess?

Recall the definition of the representation ring $R(G)$ of a compact Lie group $G$. I'd like a reference that gives me basic ring-theoretic properties that $R(G)$ always has, or enough info that I can ...
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The proof of the splitting principle in equivariant K-theory via flag manifolds

In Atiyah's famous paper "Bott periodicity and the index of elliptic operators" section 4, he proved the splitting principle for unitary groups (Propostion 4.9 in that paper), namely: Let $j: T\...