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The Stacks project

Lemma 13.9.3. Suppose that f: K^\bullet \to L^\bullet and g : L^\bullet \to M^\bullet are morphisms of complexes such that g \circ f is homotopic to zero. Then

  1. g factors through a morphism C(f)^\bullet \to M^\bullet , and

  2. f factors through a morphism K^\bullet \to C(g)^\bullet [-1].

Proof. The assumptions say that the diagram

\xymatrix{ K^\bullet \ar[r]_ f \ar[d] & L^\bullet \ar[d]^ g \\ 0 \ar[r] & M^\bullet }

commutes up to homotopy. Since the cone on 0 \to M^\bullet is M^\bullet the map C(f)^\bullet \to C(0 \to M^\bullet ) = M^\bullet of Lemma 13.9.2 is the map in (1). The cone on K^\bullet \to 0 is K^\bullet [1] and applying Lemma 13.9.2 gives a map K^\bullet [1] \to C(g)^\bullet . Applying [-1] we obtain the map in (2). \square


Comments (1)

Comment #291 by arp on

Just a remark: this lemma is a special case of Lemma 13.8.2 (TAG 014F), namely take for , for , and .


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