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Almost split morphisms in subcategories of triangulated categories

Representation Theory 2022-04-15 v3

Abstract

For a suitable triangulated category T\mathcal{T} with a Serre functor SS and a full precovering subcategory C\mathcal{C} closed under summands and extensions, an indecomposable object CC in C\mathcal{C} is called Ext-projective if Ext1(C,C)=0^1(C,\mathcal{C})=0. Then there is no Auslander-Reiten triangle in C\mathcal{C} with end term CC. In this paper, we show that if, for such an object CC, there is a minimal right almost split morphism β:BC\beta:B\rightarrow C in C\mathcal{C}, then CC appears in something very similar to an Auslander-Reiten triangle in C\mathcal{C}: an essentially unique triangle in T\mathcal{T} of the form \begin{align*} \Delta= X\xrightarrow{\xi} B\xrightarrow{\beta} C\rightarrow \Sigma X, \end{align*} where XX is an indecomposable not in C\mathcal{C} and ξ\xi is a C\mathcal{C}-envelope of XX. Moreover, under some extra assumptions, we show that removing CC from C\mathcal{C} and replacing it with XX produces a new subcategory of T\mathcal{T} closed under extensions. We prove that this process coincides with the classic mutation of C\mathcal{C} with respect to the rigid subcategory of C\mathcal{C} generated by all the indecomposable Ext-projectives in C\mathcal{C} apart from CC. When T\mathcal{T} is the cluster category of Dynkin type AnA_n and C\mathcal{C} has the above properties, we give a full description of the triangles in T\mathcal{T} of the form Δ\Delta and show under which circumstances replacing CC by XX gives a new extension closed subcategory.

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@article{arxiv.1710.10827,
  title  = {Almost split morphisms in subcategories of triangulated categories},
  author = {Francesca Fedele},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10827},
  year   = {2022}
}

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23 pages. Final version as it appears in Journal of Algebra and Its Applications

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