A categorification of non-crossing partitions (Q344462)

The Grothendieck group of an abelian or triangulated category is an abelian group with some additional structure given by the corresponding bilinear Euler form. This paper consists of 7 sections. In Section 2, the authors provide an axiomatic treatment which is inspired by work of \textit{H. Lenzing} on Grothendieck groups of canonical algebras [in: Representation theory of algebras. Seventh international conference, August 22--26, 1994, Cocoyoc, Mexico. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. 433--454 (1996; Zbl 0859.16009)]. Also they consider exceptional sequences (exceptional sequences were introduced in the Moscow school of vector bundles) and the action of the braid group in this setting, modelling their properties in the Grothendieck group of an abelian or triangulated category. In Section 3, the authors introduce the main object of interest, namely the category of generalised Cartan lattices, and show how to associate to every generalised Cartan lattice a symmetrisable generalised Cartan matrix, and hence a Weyl group and root system, as well as the poset of non-crossing partitions. They concentrate on sequences of modules over hereditary algebras and discuss the braid group action in Section 4. In the fifth section, they establish the correspondence between subobjects of generalised Cartan lattices and non-crossing partitions. In the last section, the authors relate their approach to the study of Hom-free sets, which are collections of exceptional objects having pairwise only zero homomorphisms. This paper also includes in the appendix a survey of the perpendicular calculus, as well as a discussion on the various notions of crystallographic Coxeter groups.