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The index with respect to a rigid subcategory of a triangulated category

Representation Theory 2024-08-23 v3 Category Theory K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

Palu defined the index with respect to a cluster tilting object in a suitable triangulated category, in order to better understand the Caldero-Chapoton map that exhibits the connection between cluster algebras and representation theory. We push this further by proposing an index with respect to a contravariantly finite, rigid subcategory, and we show this index behaves similarly to the classical index. Let C\mathcal{C} be a skeletally small triangulated category with split idempotents, which is thus an extriangulated category (C,E,s)(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E},\mathfrak{s}). Suppose X\mathcal{X} is a contravariantly finite, rigid subcategory in C\mathcal{C}. We define the index indX(C)\mathrm{ind}_{\mathcal{X}}(C) of an object CCC\in\mathcal{C} with respect to X\mathcal{X} as the K0K_{0}-class [C]X[C]_{\mathcal{X}} in Grothendieck group K0(C,EX,sX)K_{0}(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E}_{\mathcal{X}},\mathfrak{s}_{\mathcal{X}}) of the relative extriangulated category (C,EX,sX)(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E}_{\mathcal{X}},\mathfrak{s}_{\mathcal{X}}). By analogy to the classical case, we give an additivity formula with error term for indX\mathrm{ind}_{\mathcal{X}} on triangles in C\mathcal{C}. In case X\mathcal{X} is contained in another suitable subcategory T\mathcal{T} of C\mathcal{C}, there is a surjection Q ⁣:K0(C,ET,sT)K0(C,EX,sX)Q\colon K_{0}(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E}_{\mathcal{T}},\mathfrak{s}_{\mathcal{T}}) \twoheadrightarrow K_{0}(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E}_{\mathcal{X}},\mathfrak{s}_{\mathcal{X}}). Thus, in order to describe K0(C,EX,sX)K_{0}(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E}_{\mathcal{X}},\mathfrak{s}_{\mathcal{X}}), it suffices to determine K0(C,ET,sT)K_{0}(\mathcal{C},\mathbb{E}_{\mathcal{T}},\mathfrak{s}_{\mathcal{T}}) and KerQ\operatorname{Ker} Q. We do this under certain assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00740,
  title  = {The index with respect to a rigid subcategory of a triangulated category},
  author = {Peter Jørgensen and Amit Shah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00740},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

V1: 26 pages. V2: 26 pages, minor title change, added to Remark 4.13. V3: Several changes made following a review. We now use the notation add(X*Y) for the extension subcategory previously denoted X*Y