Derived Witt group formalism (Q2341552)

\textit{P. Balmer} [\(K\)-Theory 19, No. 4, 311--363 (2000; Zbl 0953.18003)] gave a definition of Witt groups of a triangulated category with duality and gave a proof of a localization theorem for Witt groups of triangulated categories. This generated a big interest in the study of Witt groups in different contexts. In the paper under review, the author focuses on the formalism of dévissage type of theorems for Witt groups in the context of resolving subcategories of abelian categories, which encompasses similar Witt theory for noetherian schemes. Let \(X\) be a noetherian scheme with sheaf structure \({\mathcal{O}}_X\) and let \(d=\text{dim}X\). The category \({\mathcal{V}}(X)\) of locally free sheaves is equivalent to the category \(\mathbb{M}(X)\) of coherent \({\mathcal{O}}_X\)-modules with finite \({\mathcal{V}}(X)\)-dimension. Let \(D^b({\mathcal{V}}(X))\) be the bounded derived category of locally free sheaves and let \(D_{\mathbb{M}(X)}^b({\mathcal{V}}(X))\) be the subcategory of complexes \({\mathcal{E}_*}\) in \(D^b({\mathcal{V}}(X))\) whose homologies \(H_i({\mathcal{E}_*})\) have finite locally free dimension. The subcategory \(D_{\mathbb{M}(X)}^b({\mathcal{V}}(X))\) does not have a triangulated structure and this makes the study in this situation different from the existing litterature. Among the results, the author proves that the category \(D_{\mathbb{M}(X)}^b({\mathcal{V}}(X))\) is closed under duality which is a non-trivial result.