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Torsion pairs and quasi-abelian categories

Category Theory 2020-12-11 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

We define torsion pairs for quasi-abelian categories and give several characterisations. We show that many of the torsion theoretic concepts translate from abelian categories to quasi-abelian categories. As an application, we generalise the recently defined algebraic Harder-Narasimhan filtrations to quasi-abelian categories.

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@article{arxiv.1907.10025,
  title  = {Torsion pairs and quasi-abelian categories},
  author = {Aran Tattar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.10025},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v4: Inaccuracies and typos fixed. Appearing in `Algebras and Representation Theory'