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Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24

For a chain map

f : C \to C^{'}

, one mapping-cone convention takes

M (f)_{i} = C_{i - 1} \oplus C_{i}^{'}

with a differential combining

d, d^{'}

and

f

. Its short exact sequence with

C^{'}

and a shift of

C

produces a long exact sequence in homology.

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