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Model structures on triangulated categories with proper class of triangles

Category Theory 2025-03-18 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

In contrast with the Hovey correspondence of abelian model structures from two compatible complete cotorsion pairs, Beligiannis and Reiten give a construction of model structures on abelian categories from one hereditary complete cotorsion pair. The aim of this paper is to extend this result to triangulated categories together with a proper class ξ\xi of triangles. There indeed exist non-trivial proper classes of triangles, and a proper class of triangles is not closed under rotations, in general. This is quite different from the class of all triangles. Thus one needs to develop a theory of triangles in ξ\xi and hereditary complete cotorsion pairs in a triangulated category \T\T with respect to ξ\xi. The Beligiannis - Reiten correspondence between weakly ξ\xi-projective model structures on \T\T and hereditary complete cotorsion pairs (\X,\Y)(\X, \Y) with respect to ξ\xi such that the core ω=\X\Y\omega = \X \cap \Y is contravariantly finite in \T\T is also obtained. To study the homotopy category of a model structure on a triangulated category, the condition in Quillen's Fundamental theorem of model categories needs to be weakened, by replacing the existence of pull-backs and push-outs by homotopy cartesian squares.

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@article{arxiv.2503.12475,
  title  = {Model structures on triangulated categories with proper class of triangles},
  author = {Jian Cui and Pu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12475},
  year   = {2025}
}
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