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Algebraic Topology | Part II, 2010

State the Snake Lemma. Explain how to define the boundary map which appears in it, and check that it is well-defined. Derive the Mayer-Vietoris sequence from the Snake Lemma.

Given a chain complex CC, let ACA \subset C be the span of all elements in CC with grading greater than or equal to nn, and let BCB \subset C be the span of all elements in CC with grading less than nn. Give a short exact sequence of chain complexes relating A,BA, B, and CC. What is the boundary map in the corresponding long exact sequence?

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