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In mathematics, in the field of homological algebra, given an abelian category ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {C}}}$ having enough injectives and an additive (covariant) functor

${\displaystyle F:{\mathcal {C}}\to {\mathcal {D}}}$,

an acyclic object with respect to ${\displaystyle F}$, or simply an ${\displaystyle F}$-acyclic object, is an object ${\displaystyle A}$ in ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {C}}}$ such that

${\displaystyle {\rm {R}}^{i}F(A)=0\,\!}$ for all ${\displaystyle i>0\,\!}$,

where ${\displaystyle {\rm {R}}^{i}F}$ are the right derived functors of ${\displaystyle F}$.

References

• S. Caenepeel, Brauer Groups, Hopf Algebras, and Galois Theory, Springer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 0-7923-4829-X. P.454.