\(K\)-theory for triangulated categories. III(A): The theorem of the heart (Q1299462): Difference between revisions

This is the author's fourth article of a series on the \(K\)-theory of triangulated categories [continuing \textit{A. Neeeman}, Part I(A), Asian J. Math. 1, No. 2, 330-417 (1997; Zbl 0906.19002), Part I(B), Asian J. Math. 1, No. 3, 435-529 (1997; Zbl 0906.19003), and Part II, Asian J. Math. 2, No. 1, 1-125 (1998; Zbl 0923.19002)]. He who has introduced in the previous articles a particular type of simplicial sets here is mainly concerned with the nature and structure of the homotopies between them. The following is quoted from his introduction: ``there are two types of homotopies that I know, for the simplicial sets that come up in triangulated \(K\)-theory. The first type is the trivial homotopies. These are the triangulated analogues of contractions to an initial or terminal object. The second type of homotopy is the non-trivial homotopies. And one of the key features of this theory is that there is really only one of the non-trivial homotopies... We make this very precise, showing with explicit examples how to reduce a typical non-trivial homotopy in this theory to a blueprint''.