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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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Does the forgetful G-Groups to Groups (nonabelian) have a left adjoint?

Yes. I believe there's a general theorem to the effect that if $T_1 \to T_2$ is any morphism of Lawvere theories, then the corresponding functor $\text{Prod}(T_2, \text{Set}) \to \text{Prod}(T_1, \tex …
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Free Objects in Functor Categories

$[C, \text{Ab}]$ admits a forgetful functor to $[\text{Ob}(C), \text{Set}]$ (where $\text{Ob}(C)$ denotes the category with the same objects as $C$ but no non-identity morphisms). This is a direct gen …
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For G a Lie group, can I make sense of G/G as a derived manifold in a nice way?

The functor sending a smooth manifold $M$ to its de Rham algebra $\Omega^{\bullet}(M)$ does not send quotients by actions of Lie groups to invariant subalgebras. The example I have in mind is a connec …
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is the tensor product of projective modules again projective?

Recall that $P$ is projective iff $\text{Hom}(P, -)$ is exact. We have $$\text{Hom}_{A_1 \otimes A_2}(P_1 \otimes P_2, -) \cong \text{Hom}_{A_1}(P_1, \text{Hom}_{A_2}(P_2, -))$$ and a composition of …
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A 2-category of chain complexes, chain maps, and chain homotopies?

Part of the problem is that you're not using a convenient definition of chain homotopy. I'll use a differential going down in degree. Let $I$ be the interval object in the category of chain complexes; …
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Compact object and compact generator in a category

Part of the tricky thing about this circle of ideas is that several definitions are not equivalent in full generality but become equivalent with extra hypotheses. For example, a basic result about com …
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Why are injective modules more complicated than projective modules?

Injective modules are of course just projective modules in the opposite category, so it seems to me that the question really is "why is the opposite of a module category more complicated than a module …
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Are chain complexes over a field always injective?

More abstractly, in an abelian category, saying either that every object is injective or that every object is projective is equivalent to saying that every short exact sequence splits (semisimplicity) …
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Deformations of a complex trivial up to quasi-isomorphism

In general we can consider a differential $d_t$ which depends polynomially on $t$ and whose value at $t = 0$ is our original differential. Simple examples show that we can pick up extra cohomology at …
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Any group is a quotient of an acyclic group?

Acyclic groups must in particular have trivial abelianization, so all of their quotients must be perfect. This is the only obstruction; A.J. Berrick shows in The acyclic group dichotomy (which I just …
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The isomorphism class of $\mathrm{Ext}^1_\mathbb{Z}(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z},\mathbb{Z})$

Writing $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} \cong \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z} \oplus \bigoplus_I \mathbb{Q}$ where $I$ indexes a Hamel basis for $\mathbb{R}$ minus one element, we have $$\text{Ext}^1(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{ …
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Motivating the category of chain complexes

Let $R$ be a commutative ring. For awhile I have been trying to motivate to myself more fully the definition of and various structures on the category $\text{Ch}(R)$ of chain complexes of $R$-modules …
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How to define cohomology of algebraic structures?

There is a tremendous amount of abstract formalism answering this question in various levels of generality depending on what you want to do. I'll pick one in the middle: the machinery of derived funct …
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Does homotopy invariance of homology follow from the structure of the simplex category $\Del...

Chris's comment suggests that very little about the target category $C$ is being used in the standard argument, but I still think there's something interesting to check, namely what exactly is being u …
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origin of spectral sequences in algebraic topology

I'm not comfortable enough with spectral sequences to answer this question, but let me answer an easier version of this question with spectral sequences replaced by long exact sequences. In algebrai …
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