Remark 13.12.4. Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category. Let $K^\bullet$ be a complex of $\mathcal{A}$. Let $a \in \mathbf{Z}$. We claim there is a canonical distinguished triangle

$\tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet \to K^\bullet \to \tau _{\geq a + 1}K^\bullet \to (\tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet )[1]$

in $D(\mathcal{A})$. Here we have used the canonical truncation functors $\tau$ from Homology, Section 12.15. Namely, we first take the distinguished triangle associated by our $\delta$-functor (Lemma 13.12.1) to the short exact sequence of complexes

$0 \to \tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet \to K^\bullet \to K^\bullet /\tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet \to 0$

Next, we use that the map $K^\bullet \to \tau _{\geq a + 1}K^\bullet$ factors through a quasi-isomorphism $K^\bullet /\tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet \to \tau _{\geq a + 1}K^\bullet$ by the description of cohomology groups in Homology, Section 12.15. In a similar way we obtain canonical distinguished triangles

$\tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet \to \tau _{\leq a + 1}K^\bullet \to H^{a + 1}(K^\bullet )[-a-1] \to (\tau _{\leq a}K^\bullet )[1]$

and

$H^ a(K^\bullet )[-a] \to \tau _{\geq a}K^\bullet \to \tau _{\geq a + 1}K^\bullet \to H^ a(K^\bullet )[-a + 1]$

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