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Publications and source records attributed to Xiao-Wu Chen.
To an artin algebra with radical square zero, a regular algebra in the sense of von Neumann and a family of invertible bimodules over the regular algebra are associated. These data describe completely, as a triangulated category, the singularity category of the artin algebra. A criterion on the Hom-finiteness of the singularity category is given in terms of the valued quiver of the artin algebra.
For a weighted projective line, the stable category of its vector bundles modulo lines bundles has a natural triangulated structure. We prove that, for any positive integers $p, q, r$ and $r'$ with $r'\leq r$, there is an explicit recollement of the stable category of vector bundles on a weighted projective line of weight type $(p, q, r)$ relative to the ones on weighted projective lines of weight types $(p, q, r')$ and $(p, q, r-r'+1)$.
These notes provide a description of the abelian categories that arise as categories of coherent sheaves on weighted projective lines. Two different approaches are presented: one is based on a list of axioms and the other yields a description in terms of expansions of abelian categories. A weighted projective line is obtained from a projective line by inserting finitely many weights. So we describe the category of coherent sheaves on a projective line in some detail, and the insertion of weights amounts to adding simple objects. We call this process `expansion' and treat it axiomatically. Thus most of these notes are devoted to studying abelian categories, including a brief discussion of tilting theory. We provide many details and have tried to keep the exposition as self-contained as possible.
Expansions of abelian categories are introduced. These are certain functors between abelian categories and provide a tool for induction/reduction arguments. Expansions arise naturally in the study of coherent sheaves on weighted projective lines; this is illustrated by various applications.
We introduce the notion of balanced pair of additive subcategories in an abelian category. We give sufficient conditions under which the balanced pair of subcategories gives rise to equivalent homotopy categories of complexes. As an application, we prove that for a left-Gorenstein ring, there exists a triangle-equivalence between the homotopy category of its Gorenstein projective modules and the homotopy category of its Gorenstein injective modules, which restricts to a triangle-equivalence between the homotopy category of projective modules and the homotopy category of injective modules. In the case of commutative Gorenstein rings we prove that up to a natural isomorphism our equivalence extends Iyengar-Krause's equivalence.
We introduce a notion of generalized Serre duality on a Hom-finite Krull-Schmidt triangulated category $\mathcal{T}$. This duality induces the generalized Serre functor on $\mathcal{T}$, which is a linear triangle equivalence between two thick triangulated subcategories of $\mathcal{T}$. Moreover, the domain of the generalized Serre functor is the smallest additive subcategory of $\mathcal{T}$ containing all the indecomposable objects which appear as the third term of an Auslander-Reiten triangle in $\mathcal{T}$; dually, the range of the generalized Serre functor is the smallest additive subcategory of $\mathcal{T}$ containing all the indecomposable objects which appear as the first term of an Auslander-Reiten triangle in $\mathcal{T}$. We compute explicitly the generalized Serre duality on the bounded derived categories of artin algebras and of certain noncommutative projective schemes in the sense of Artin and Zhang. We obtain a characterization of Gorenstein algebras: an artin algebra $A$ is Gorenstein if and only if the bounded homotopy category of finitely generated projective $A$-modules has Serre duality in the sense of Bondal and Kapranov.
This paper consists of three results on Frobenius categories: (1) we give sufficient conditions on when a factor category of a Frobenius category is still a Frobenius category; (2) we show that any Frobenius category is equivalent to an extension-closed exact subcategory of the Frobenius category formed by Cohen-Macaulay modules over some additive category; this is an analogue of Gabriel-Quillen's embedding theorem for Frobenius categories; (3) we show that under certain conditions an exact category with enough projective and enough injective objects allows a natural new exact structure, with which the given category becomes Frobenius. Several applications of the results are discussed.
Let $\mathbb{X}$ be a noetherian separated scheme $\mathbb{X}$ of finite Krull dimension which has enough locally free sheaves of finite rank and let $U\subseteq \mathbb{X}$ be an open subscheme. We prove that the singularity category of $U$ is triangle equivalent to the Verdier quotient category of the singularity category of $\mathbb{X}$ with respect to the thick triangulated subcategory generated by sheaves supported in the complement of $U$. The result unifies two results of D. Orlov. We also prove a noncommutative version of this result.
Examples are given to show that the support of a complex of modules over a commutative noetherian ring may not be read off the minimal semi-injective resolution of the complex. The same examples also show that a localization of a semi-injective complex need not be semi-injective.
For a Frobenius abelian category $\mathcal{A}$, we show that the category ${\rm Mon}(\mathcal{A})$ of monomorphisms in $\mathcal{A}$ is a Frobenius exact category; the associated stable category $\underline{\rm Mon}(\mathcal{A})$ modulo projective objects is called the stable monomorphism category of $\mathcal{A}$. We show that a tilting object in the stable category $\underline{\mathcal{A}}$ of $\mathcal{A}$ modulo projective objects induces naturally a tilting object in $\underline{\rm Mon}(\mathcal{A})$. We show that if $\mathcal{A}$ is the category of (graded) modules over a (graded) self-injective algebra $A$, then the stable monomorphism category is triangle equivalent to the (graded) singularity category of the (graded) $2\times 2$ upper triangular matrix algebra $T_2(A)$. As an application, we give two characterizations to the stable category of Ringel-Schmidmeier (\cite{RS3}).
For a positively graded artin algebra $A=\oplus_{n\geq 0}A_n$ we introduce its Beilinson algebra $\mathrm{b}(A)$. We prove that if $A$ is well-graded self-injective, then the category of graded $A$-modules is equivalent to the category of graded modules over the trivial extension algebra $T(\mathrm{b}(A))$. Consequently, there is a full exact embedding from the bounded derived category of $\mathrm{b}(A)$ into the stable category of graded modules over $A$; it is an equivalence if and only if the 0-th component algebra $A_0$ has finite global dimension.
We give a short proof to the following tilting theorem by Happel, Reiten and Smalø via an explicit construction: given two abelian categories $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ such that $\mathcal{B}$ is tilted from $\mathcal{A}$, then $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ are derived equivalent.
In \cite{GT}, Gentle and Todorov proved that in an abelian category with enough projective objects, the extension subcategory of two covariantly finite subcategories is still covariantly finite. We give an counterexample to show that Gentle-Todorov's theorem may fail in arbitrary abelian categories; we also prove that a triangulated version of Gentle-Todorov's theorem holds; we make applications of Gentle-Todorov's theorem to obtain short proofs to a classical result by Ringel and a recent result by Krause and Solberg.
An artin algebra $A$ is said to be CM-finite if there are only finitely many, up to isomorphisms, indecomposable finitely generated Gorenstein-projective $A$-modules. We prove that for a Gorenstein artin algebra, it is CM-finite if and only if every its Gorenstein-projective module is a direct sum of finitely generated Gorenstein-projective modules. This is an analogue of Auslander's theorem on algebras of finite representation type (\cite{A,A1}).
We prove that if a positively-graded ring $R$ is Gorenstein and the associated torsion functor has finite cohomological dimension, then the corresponding noncommutative projective scheme ${\rm Tails}(R)$ is a Gorenstein category in the sense of \cite{EEG}. Moreover, under this condition, a (right) recollement relating Gorenstein-injective sheaves in ${\rm Tails}(R)$ and (graded) Gorenstein-injective $R$-modules is given.
We introduce the notion of relative singularity category with respect to any self-orthogonal subcategory $ω$ of an abelian category. We introduce the Frobenius category of $ω$-Cohen-Macaulay objects, and under some reasonable conditions, we show that the stable category of $ω$-Cohen-Macaulay objects is triangle-equivalent to the relative singularity category. As applications, we relate the stable category of (unnecessarily finitely-generated) Gorenstein-projective modules with singularity categories of rings. We prove that for a Gorenstein ring, the stable category of Gorenstein-projective modules is compactly generated and its compact objects coincide with finitely-generated Gorenstein-projective modules up to direct summands.
We study certain Schur functors which preserve singularity categories of rings and we apply them to study the singularity category of triangular matrix rings. In particular, combining these results with Buchweitz-Happel's theorem, we can describe singularity categories of certain non-Gorenstein rings via the stable category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules. Three concrete examples of finite-dimensional algebras with the same singularity category are discussed.
For a self-orthogonal module $T$, the relation between the quotient triangulated category $D^b(A)/K^b({\rm add} T)$ and the stable category of the Frobenius category of $T$-Cohen-Macaulay modules is investigated. In particular, for a Gorenstein algebra, we get a relative version of the description of the singularity category due to Happel. Also, the derived category of a Gorenstein algebra is explicitly given, inside the stable category of the graded module category of the corresponding trivial extension algebra, via Happel's functor $F: D^b(A) \longrightarrow T(A)^{\mathbb{Z}}{-}\underline{\rm mod}$.