Characterisations of $\Sigma$-pure-injectivity in triangulated categories and applications to endoperfect objects

Abstract

We provide various ways to characterise $\Sigma$-pure-injective objects in a compactly generated triangulated category. These characterisations mimic analogous well-known results from the model theory of modules. The proof involves two approaches. In the first approach we adapt arguments from the module-theoretic setting. Here the one-sorted language of modules over a fixed ring is replaced with a canonical multi-sorted language, whose sorts are given by compact objects. Throughout we use a variation of the Yoneda embedding, called the resticted Yoneda functor, which associates a multi-sorted structure to each object. The second approach is to translate statements using this functor. In particular, results about $\Sigma$-pure-injectives in triangulated categories are deduced from results about $\Sigma$-injective objects in Grothendieck categories. Combining the two approaches highlights a connection between sorted pp-definable subgroups and annihilator subobjects of generators in the functor category. Our characterisation motivates the introduction of what we call endoperfect objects, which generalise endofinite objects.