The index with respect to a rigid subcategory of a triangulated category
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 be a skeletally small triangulated category with split idempotents, which is thus an extriangulated category . Suppose is a contravariantly finite, rigid subcategory in . We define the index of an object with respect to as the -class in Grothendieck group of the relative extriangulated category . By analogy to the classical case, we give an additivity formula with error term for on triangles in . In case is contained in another suitable subcategory of , there is a surjection . Thus, in order to describe , it suffices to determine and . 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