On the weight lifting property for localizations of triangulated categories (Q1992107)

Let \(SH^{fin}\) be the topological stable homotopy category of finite spectra. Given a finite spectrum \(X\), assume that the stable homotopy groups \(\pi_{s_i}(X)\) are torsion for \(i\leq n\) with some integer \(n\). It is natural to ask whether \(X\) belongs to the extension-closure of the union of the class of finite torsion spectra with the class of finite \(n\)-connected spectra. The authors establish this statement in the following strong form: there exists a distinguished triangle \(T\to X\to M\to T[1]\) in \(SH^{fin}\) such that \(T\) is torsion and \(M\) is an \(n\)-connected spectrum. To generalize of the aforementioned result the language of weight structures introduced by the first author and independently by \textit{D. Pauksztello} [Cent. Eur. J. Math. 6, No. 1, 25--42 (2008; Zbl 1152.18009)] is used. As the authors proved earlier, for any triangulated category \(\mathcal{C}\) endowed with a weight structure \(w\) and some triangulated subcategory \(\mathcal{D}\) of \(\mathcal{C}\) there exists a weight structure \(w'\) on the Verdier quotient \(\mathcal{C}'C=\mathcal{C}/\mathcal{D}\). The goal of this note is to find conditions ensuring that for any object of \(\mathcal{C}'\) of non-negative (resp.\ non-positive) weights there exists its preimage in \(\mathcal{C}\) satisfying the same condition; a certain stronger version of the latter assumption is called the left (resp., right) \textit{weight lifting property}. These results are applied to obtain some new results on Tate motives and finite spectra (in the stable homotopy category), and to a study of the so-called Chow-weight homology in another paper as well.