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(Co)chain complexes, abelian Categories, (pre)sheaves, (co)homology in various (possibly highly generalized) settings, spectra, derived functors, resolutions, spectral sequences, homotopy categories. Chain complexes in an abelian category form the heart of homological algebra.

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A ring such that all projectives are stably free but not all projectives are free?

This question is motivated by this recent question. Suppose $R$ is commutative, Noetherian ring and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. Let $FD(M)$ and $PD(M)$ be the shortest length of free and proj …
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Do all exact $1 \to A \to A \times B \to B \to 1$ split for finite groups?

This is true (1). It was extended to finitely generated profinite groups here (2). Surprisingly, it is also true in the category of finitely generated modules over a Noetherian commutative ring (3). …
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Can a module be an extension in two really different ways?

It is worth noting some very interesting cases when the answer is yes. An amazing result by Miyata states that if $R$ is Noetherian and commutative, $M,N$ are finitely generated and $E \cong M\oplus …
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How to construct a ring with global dimension m and weak dimension n?

If $R$ is Noetherian then they are equal. For $n=0$ one can use the fact that any Boolean ring has weak dimension $0$ (any module is flat), but a free Boolean ring on $\aleph_n$ generators have global …
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Surjectivity of natural map of rings

Write the right-hand side as $Hom_B(P/P^2,B)$. If the map you are interested in is surjective, then the preimage of the trace ideal of $P/P^2$ in $B$ must be contained in the the trace ideal of $P$ in …
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On the map $\Phi_M: M\otimes_RM^*\xrightarrow{x\otimes y\mapsto \left\{f\mapsto f(x)y\right\...

It should be noted that the answer is yes if $R$ is normal and $M$ is torsion-free. That is because of the: Fact: if a map $f:A \to B$ of reflexive modules is locally an isomorphism in codimension on …
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Ideals in Artinian Gorenstein local ring $(R,\mathfrak m)$ with $\mu(\mathfrak m)=2, \mathfr...

We use the fact that in an Artinian Gorenstein ring, any ideal contains the socle. The assumption tells us that the socle of $A$ is $\mathfrak m^2$, which is principal. Let $I\neq (0)$ be a non-maxima …
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Is Koszul homology of a monomial ideal always generated by the "obvious" things?

This holds for $n\leq 3$ but may fail for $n=4$ and higher. See Proposition 2.6 and Example 2.9 in the paper "On monomial Golod ideals" (but probably known to experts before).
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Indecomposable modules such that the radical is a submodule of the socle

No. Let $(R,\mathfrak m)$ be commutative local Artin ring, then the radical of $M$ is $\mathfrak mM$ and your condition is equivalent to $\mathfrak m^2M=0$. One can not bound the length of such indeco …
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Projective dimension of a sub-ideal

Interestingly, the equality you seek holds in one important special case. If $I$ is any monomial ideal and $J$ is the radical of $I$, then $pd_S(I)\leq pd_S(J)$. See the proof of Theorem 2.6 in this p …
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Short exact sequences every mathematician should know

Given a finitely generated module $M$ over a commutative Noetherian ring $R$, there is a short exact sequence $$0\to M_1 \to R^n \to M\to 0$$ where you map $1$ in each $R$ to a generator of $M$ and $M …
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When are MCM ideals principal?

On question 1, for what rings all MCM ideals are principal, we can say quite a bit more if one knows that $R$ is parafactorial (that is, the Picard group of the punctured spectrum $Spec^o(R):=Spec(R)- …
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Betti sequence of finite dimensional commutative algebras

I will first show that the general answer is no (in fact one should expect the opposite even in the graded case) by the Pigeonhole principle. Then we shall construct some concrete examples via an old …
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Commutative algebras with modules of small complexity

There are no other examples. This property is equivalent to $A$ being a hypersurface (see Avramov's note "Infinite Free Resolutions"). By Cohen Structure Theorem, an Artinian local hypersurface (which …
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Equivalence of definitions of Cohen-Macaulay type

For the equivalence you need two more assumptions: (a) $M$ to have finite projective dimension and (b) $R$ to be Gorenstein. (a) is implicitly required in the second condition, otherwise you don't hav …
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