chain complex

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sequence of Abelian groups (or modules), together with a sequence of homomorphisms (called boundary homomorphisms) between consecutive groups, such that the image of one homomorphism is contained in the kernel of the next.

Word forms

chain complex chain complexes
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