Additive categories of locally finite representation type (Q5936157)

Let \(\mathcal A\) be a locally finitely presented additive category. Then \(\mathcal A\) is said to be of locally finite representation type provided every finitely presented object of \(\mathcal A\) is of finite endolength and for every finitely presented object \(M\) of \(\mathcal A\), there are only finitely many nonisomorphic finitely presented indecomposable objects \(X\) in \(\mathcal A\) such that \(\Hom(M,X)\neq 0\). This generalizes the concept of a Grothendieck category to be of finite representation type. The aim of the paper under review is to study systematically those categories, extending in some sense the classical theory developed by \textit{M. Auslander} [in Commun. Algebra 1, 269--310 (1974; Zbl 0285.16029)].