f = map(D, C, L)
A map of complexes $f \colon C \rightarrow D$ of degree $d$ is a sequence of maps $f_i \colon C_i \rightarrow D_{d+i}$. No relationship between the maps $f_i$ and and the differentials of either $C$ or $D$ is assumed.
This method has two very different usages. The first is to construct a chain complex map from a list of matrices. The second constructs a chain complex map from essentially a block matrix whose entries are chain complex maps.
In the first case, we construct a map of chain complexes by specifying the individual maps between the terms.
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In the second, we construct a map of chain complexes via a block matrix whose individual entries are already maps of chain complexes. We illustrate by constructing a mapping cone.
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We convert this map of complexes cf into the differential of the mapping cone. For the following constructor, the source and target of the input must be identical, in this case the chain complex $E$.
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