Extended Module Categories in Higher Cluster Tilting Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we study ideal quotients of triangulated categories by higher cluster tilting subcategories. Koenig and Zhu proved that the ideal quotient by a $2$-cluster tilting subcategory is an abelian category; moreover, by Morita's theorem, it is equivalent to the module category over the $2$-cluster tilting subcategory. We generalize this result to higher cluster tilting subcategories. More precisely, we show that the natural DG-enhancement of the ideal quotient of a triangulated category by a $(d+1)$-cluster tilting subcategory is an abelian $d$-truncated DG-category. In the appendix, we prove a Morita-type theorem for abelian $d$-truncated DG-categories, which asserts that an abelian $d$-truncated DG-category with enough projectives is equivalent to a $d$-extended module category over a $d$-truncated DG-category. As an application, we show that the ideal quotient of a triangulated category by a $(d+1)$-cluster tilting subcategory is equivalent to a $d$-extended module category over a $d$-truncated DG-category.