Grothendieck Group - Grothendieck Groups of Triangulated Categories

Grothendieck Groups of Triangulated Categories

Generalizing even further it is also possible to define the Grothendieck group for triangulated categories. The construction is essentially similar but uses the relations - + = 0 whenever there is a distinguished triangle XYZX.

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