English

Metrics on triangulated categories and restrictions of (co)-$t$-structures

Category Theory 2026-04-30 v1 Rings and Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

This paper explores the restriction behavior of silting-induced tt-structures and co-tt-structures on triangulated categories endowed with metrics. For compactly generated triangulated categories admitting small coproducts, silting subcategories of compact objects give rise to canonical tt-structures. We establish that a silting subcategory being contravariantly finite in the precompletion (or completion) is equivalent to the canonical tt-structure restricting to this precompletion (or completion). This result yields a purely categorical characterization of right coherent rings: a ring RR is right coherent if and only if the standard tt-structure on D(Mod-R)\mathcal{D}({\sf Mod}\text{-}R) restricts to a tt-structure on K,b(proj-R)\mathcal{K}^{-,b}({\sf proj}\text{-}R). Furthermore, we show that the correspondences between silting objects, bounded (co)-tt-structures, and simple-minded collections given by Koenig and Yang can be extended to the metric framework of triangulated categories, and still commute with mutation operations and preserve natural partial orders.

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@article{arxiv.2604.26199,
  title  = {Metrics on triangulated categories and restrictions of (co)-$t$-structures},
  author = {Wei Hu and Ziheng Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26199},
  year   = {2026}
}