Schanuel lemma in an abelian category

ID: schanuel-lemma-in-an-abelian-category

Two projective presentations of the same object in an abelian category, with kernels and middle objects , satisfy . Form their pullback in a category. Its two induced short exact sequences in an abelian category split because each quotient is a projective object in a category. The two resulting biproduct descriptions of the pullback give the isomorphism.

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