The Stacks project

Lemma 12.6.4. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category. Let $0 \to M_1 \to M_2 \to M_3 \to 0$ be a short exact sequence in $\mathcal{A}$.

  1. There is a canonical six term exact sequence of abelian groups

    \[ \xymatrix{ 0 \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M_3, N) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M_2, N) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M_1, N) \ar[lld] \\ & \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M_3, N) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M_2, N) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(M_1, N) } \]

    for all objects $N$ of $\mathcal{A}$, and

  2. there is a canonical six term exact sequence of abelian groups

    \[ \xymatrix{ 0 \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(N, M_1) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(N, M_2) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Hom}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(N, M_3) \ar[lld] \\ & \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(N, M_1) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(N, M_2) \ar[r] & \mathop{\mathrm{Ext}}\nolimits _\mathcal {A}(N, M_3) } \]

    for all objects $N$ of $\mathcal{A}$.

Proof. Omitted. Hint: The boundary maps are defined using either the pushout or pullback of the given short exact sequence. $\square$


Comments (3)

Comment #737 by Anfang Zhou on

Typo. In the right-hand column of the last diagram, it should be .

Comment #8108 by Et on

I think it's worth giving a sentence on how to obtain exactness at the end. It seems to me there is something non trivial to show there (my proof used the snake lemma in a necessary way) and I wasn't able to find references on this either. (of course, there are plenty of references that construct the sequence with the other defintion of Ext)

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