Stable Module Category - Triangulated Structure

Triangulated Structure

An exact sequence

in the usual module category defines an element of, and hence an element of, so that we get a sequence

Taking to be the translation functor and such sequences as above to be exact triangles, the stable module category becomes a triangulated category.

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