 Normalized chain complex of a simplicial abelian group (source code)

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= Normalized chain complex of a simplicial abelian group
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For a simplicial abelian group $A$, one convention for normalized chains is
$$
N_nA=\bigcap_{i=1}^n\ker(d_i:A_n\to A_{n-1}),
\qquad \partial=d_0.
$$
Equivalently, it is the quotient of the unnormalized chain complex by its degenerate subcomplex.

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