Balance in stable categories

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Abstract: We study when the stable category of an abelian category modulo a full additive subcategory is balanced and, in case the subcategory is functorially finite, we study a weak version of balance. Precise necessary and sufficient conditions are given in case the subcategory is either a Serre class or a class consisting of projective objects. The results in this second case apply very neatly to (generalizations of) hereditary abelian categories.


A category \(\mathcal A\) is balanced if any morphism which is at once an epimorphism and a monomorphism is actually an isomorphism. Given an additive category \(\mathcal A\) and a full additive subcategory \(\mathcal T\), then the quotient \({\mathcal A}/{\mathcal T}\) has only a weak structure in general. The paper under review studies when this quotient is balanced in case \(\mathcal A\) is abelian. If \(\mathcal T\) is a Serre class or if \(\mathcal T\) is functorially finite consisting of projective objects and closed under direct summands, the paper gives various sufficient conditions and equivalent conditions for the quotient to be balanced.











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