Acyclic object

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

F :\mathcal{C}\to\mathcal{D},

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

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

where RiF are the right derived functors of F.