English Explanatory Dictionary

exact sequence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sequence of modules (or groups, vector spaces, etc.; most generally, objects of an abelian category) with adjacent objects connected by homomorphisms (generally, morphisms) such that the image of one homomorphism is the kernel of the next.

Word forms

exact sequence exact sequences

Derived words

long exact sequence short exact sequence
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