Three results on Frobenius categories (Q663253)

This paper is motivated by the results of Ringel and Schmidmeyer on the graded submodule category over the truncated polynomial algebra \(k[t]/(t^p)\), which is an example of a Frobenius category having an interesting connection with the category of vector bundles on the weighted projective line of type \((2,3,p)\). The first main result of this paper gives sufficient conditions on when a factor category of a Frobenius category is still Frobenius. Next, the author shows that each Frobenius category is equivalent, as exact categories, to an extension-closed exact subcategory of the Frobenius category of Cohen-Macaulay modules over some additive category; this may be viewed as an analogue of the Gabriel-Quillen embedding theorem for Frobenius categories. Finally, the author gives a sufficient condition such that on an exact category with enough injectives and enough projectives there exists a natural exact structure with which the category becomes Frobenius. Applications to the Frobenius category of matrix factorizations and to minimal monomorphisms are also presented.