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Higher dualizability and singly-generated Grothendieck categories

Category Theory 2021-02-16 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Let kk be a field. We show that locally presentable, kk-linear categories C\mathcal{C} dualizable in the sense that the identity functor can be recovered as ixifi\coprod_i x_i\otimes f_i for objects xiCx_i\in \mathcal{C} and left adjoints fif_i from C\mathcal{C} to Vectk\mathrm{Vect}_k are products of copies of Vectk\mathrm{Vect}_k. This partially confirms a conjecture by Brandenburg, the author and T. Johnson-Freyd. Motivated by this, we also characterize the Grothendieck categories containing an object xx with the property that every object is a copower of xx: they are precisely the categories of non-singular injective right modules over simple, regular, right self-injective rings of type I or III.

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@article{arxiv.2102.07042,
  title  = {Higher dualizability and singly-generated Grothendieck categories},
  author = {Alexandru Chirvasitu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07042},
  year   = {2021}
}

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