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Equivalence of categories and derived functors.

Don't know if this kind of a dumb question but let $A$ and $B$ be abelian categories and suppose they're equivalent: there are two functors $P: A \rightarrow B$ and $Q: B \rightarrow A$ satisfying the ...
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Ext between two coherent sheaves

Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over a field $k = \overline k$. From Hartshorne we know, that $\textrm{dim} \, H^i (X,F)<\infty$ for any coherent sheaf $F$. How to show, that all $Ext^i ...
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Hypercohomology and acyclicity of direct images

Let $f: X\rightarrow Y$, $g:Y \rightarrow Z$ be morphisms of topological spaces and let $K^{.}$ be an injective object in the category of complexes of abelian sheaves on $X$. Write $\mathbb R^0f_* ...
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Sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^n \times \mathbb{P}^m$, and a commutation relation for derived functors of global sections and tensor products on it.

I'll state my questions first and then provide some background. Question 3 is by far my most important one. We work over $k=\mathbb{C}$ whenever necessary. Is it true that $\text{Pic}(\mathbb{P}^n ...
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Computing left derived functors from acyclic complexes (not resolutions!)

I am reading a paper where the following trick is used: To compute the left derived functors $L_{i}FM$ of a right-exact functor $F$ on an object $M$ in a certain abelian category, the authors ...
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Why are these two functors isomorphic?

Let $A$ be a local noetherian ring, $M$ an $A$-module finitely generated. Let $f$ be an $A$-regular and $M$-regular element (i.e. $f$ is not a zero divisors on $A$ nor on $M$). Then inside the ...
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What does $Tor_{R}^n(M,N)$ represent?

Let $R$ be a commutative ring and $M$ and $N$ be $R$-modules (I am not sure if one really needs commutativity in the following). It is well-known that $Ext_{R}^n(M,N)$ for $n>1$ parametrizes ...
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Cartan-Eilenberg resolutions, adapted classes and acyclic resolutions

I may get grilled for this but here I go: Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category with enough injectives. What I want to know is VERY VERY specific. Let's say I have a complex in $\mathcal{A}$ $0 ...
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Adapted classes of objects and left (right) exact functors

I had a question about adapted classes of objects, I was confused by the definition and how it relates to left exact functors. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category with enough injectives, let $F: ...
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Composition of derived functors and comparison between hypercohomology and sheaf cohomology

I had a few questions about compositions of derived functors, the comparison between hypercohomology, and sheaf cohomology and the following theorem from the Gelfand, Manin homological algebra book: ...
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Question about the $\mathrm{Tor}$ functor

Assume we want to define $\mathrm{Tor}_n (M,N)$ where $M,N$ are $R$-modules and $R$ is a commutative unital ring. We take a projective resolution of $M$: $$ \dots \to P_1 \to P_0 \to M \to 0$$ Now ...
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Is there an easy formula for $\operatorname{Tor}_i^{\mathbb{Z}/(p^n)}(\mathbb{Z}/(p),\mathbb{Z}/(p))$?

I've been following some old slides from the Spring 2010 Algebra Seminar at UWaterloo. I now know that $$ \operatorname{Ext}_{\mathbb{Z}/(p^n)}^i(\mathbb{Z}/(p),\mathbb{Z}/(p))\cong\mathbb{Z}/(p) $$ ...
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Is there a general formula for $\operatorname{Ext}_{\mathbb{Z}/(p^n)}^i(\mathbb{Z}/(p),\mathbb{Z}/(p))$?

The other day I was reading through some slides I found online about Ext and Tor. One of the examples gave a cursory derivation for a general formula $$ ...
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Why do universal $\delta$-functors annihilate injectives?

Let $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ be abelian categories. Suppose $\mathcal{A}$ has enough injectives, and consider a universal (cohomological) $\delta$-functor $T^\bullet$ from $\mathcal{A}$ to ...
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$\mathrm{Tor}$ functor not left exact

Is there an example which shows that the functor $B\otimes_R(-)$ is not left-exact, given a ring $R$ and a right $R$-module $B$?
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Some questions about the Tor functor as a two-variable functor related to the arbitrary character of the choice of projective resolutions

Given a ring $R$, we can consider the following functors: any $A\in Mod-R$ and choice of projective resolutions $P_\bullet(B)$ for every $B\in R-Mod$ defines a functor $Tor_n^R(A,-):R-Mod\to Ab$, ...
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Left-derived functors

Let $F:\mathcal{A}\to\mathcal{B}$ be a covariant right-exact functor between two abelian categories. Suppose $\mathcal{A}$ has enough projectives. Then we define the left derived functors of $F$ by ...
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Right derived functor of diagonal morphism equals direct image on line bundles?

Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety. The map $i:X\to X\times_k X$ induced by the identity is a closed immersion. Denote its image by $\bigtriangleup$. We have ...
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Derived functors are Kan extensions

In this short paper by G. Maltsiniotis derived functors are presented as Kan extensions along the localization functor. I began studying derived categories only a couple of months ago, so I'm not at ...
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Question about derived functors

Let $F,G, H: Mod \to Mod$ be three left exact functors such that $R^iF(-)\cong R^iG(-)$ for all $i\in\mathbb{N}$. We consider the exact sequence $$\cdots\to R^iF(M)\to R^iG(M)\to R^iH(M)\to ...
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Derived functors of torsion functor

Let $A$ be a domain. For every $A$-module $M$ consider its torsion submodule $M^{tor}$ made up of elements of $M$ which are annihilated by a non zero-element of $A$. If $f \colon M \to N$ is a ...
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derived functors and acyclics

I'm not sure how I can show the following: If F is a left exact functor from an abelian category A to an abelian category B, whose derived functor RF in the sense of derived categories exists, then ...
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Derived functor of a derived functor

Given $F$ is a covariant additive functor from left R-module to a left S-module, show that $\mathscr{L}_n(\mathscr{L_m}(F))=0$ if $m>0$ (where $\mathscr{L}$ refers to the derived functor). I am ...
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Derived category and so on

I am looking for an introductive reference to the theory of derived categories. Especially I need to start from the very beginning and I need to know how to use this in examples which comes from ...
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What is the Tor functor?

I'm doing the exercises in "Introduction to commutive algebra" by Atiyah&MacDonald. In chapter two, exercises 24-26 assume knowledge of the Tor functor. I have tried Googling the term, but I ...