Almost split sequences in tri-exact categories (Q2153802)

The authors unify and extend some existence theorems for almost split sequences in abelian categories and exact categories, by working with tri-exact categories. First, they show that every exact category is equivalent to a tri-exact category with equivalent stable categories. This ensures that the study of almost split sequences in exact categories and abelian categories is covered under the tri-exact setting. Then, it is possible to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an almost split sequence in a tri-exact category; and to show that a tri-exact R-category has almost split sequences on the right (or left) if and only if it admits a full right (or left) Auslander-Reiten functor. Finally, if an abelian category admits a Nakayama functor with respect to a subcategory of projective objects they establish the existence of an almost split triangle in the bounded derived category.