On the notion of precohomology
Given a long exact sequence of abelian groupsL: ... → Li-1 →ξi-1 Li →ξi Li+1 → ...a short exact sequence of complexes of free abelian groups is constructed whose cohomology long exact sequence is precisely L. In this sense, L is realized. Two techniques which are introduced to reduce or replace lengthy diagram chasing arguments may be of interest to some readers. One is an arithmetic of bicartesian squares; the other is the use of the fact that categories of morphisms of abelian categories...
We generalize the relative (co)tilting theory of Auslander-Solberg in the category mod Λ of finitely generated left modules over an artin algebra Λ to certain subcategories of mod Λ. We then use the theory (relative (co)tilting theory in subcategories) to generalize one of the main result of Marcos et al. [Comm. Algebra 33 (2005)].
It was recently proved that every additive category has a unique maximal exact structure, while it remained open whether the distinguished short exact sequences of this canonical exact structure coincide with the stable short exact sequences. The question is answered by a counterexample which shows that none of the steps to construct the maximal exact structure can be dropped.