Generalized Serre duality (Q536178)

The paper under review deals with the existence of Auslander-Reiten (AR) triangles in a Hom-finite Krull-Schmidt triangulated category. A result of Reiten-Van den Bergh states that such a category has AR triangles if and only if it has a Serre duality (in the sense of Bondal-Kapranov). In general, however, this is not the case, and for such categories the author establishes a relative version of the above result. More precisely, let \(R\) be a commutative artinian ring, \(E\) a minimal injective cogenerator for \(R\), and \(D:=(-,E)\). Assuming the category in question is \(R\)-linear, look at the subcategory consisting of objects \(X\) such that the functor \(D(X,-)\) is representable. Likewise, define a second subcategory such that \(D(-,X)\) is representable. Then there is a unique \(R\)-linear equivalence \(S\) between the two, giving rise to a natural isomorphism \(D(X,Y) \simeq (Y,S(X))\). When the ambient category has Serre duality, it coincides with the two subcategories. This motivates the author to call \(S\), with the requisite subcategories, a generalized Serre duality. The main result of the paper asserts that an indecomposable object is in the former (resp., latter) subcategory precisely when there is an AR triangle beginning (resp., ending) with it.