Types of Serre subcategories of Grothendieck categories

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Abstract: Every Serre subcategory of an abelian category is assigned a unique type. The type of a Serre subcategory of a Grothendieck category is in the list: (0, 0), (0, -1), (1, -1), (0, -2), (1, -2), (2, -1), (+infty, -infty); and for each (m,−n) in this list, there exists a Serre subcategory such that its type is (m,−n). This uses right (left) recollements of abelian categories, Tachikawa-Ohtake [TO] on strongly hereditary torsion pairs, and Geigle-Lenzing [GL] on localizing subcategories. If all the functors in a recollement of abelian categories are exact, then the recollement splits. Quite surprising, any left recollement of a Grothendieck category can be extended to a recollement; but this is not true for a right recollement. Thus, a colocalizing subcategory of a Grothendieck category is localizing; but the converse is not true. All these results do not hold in triangulated categories.


The concept of iterated recollement (ladders) for triangulated categories was introduced by Beilinson, Ginsburg, and Schechtman [\textit{A. A. Beilinson} et al., J. Geom. Phys. 5, No. 3, 317--350 (1988; Zbl 0695.14009)]. In the paper under review, the possible ladders are investigated in the context of abelian categories. In sharp contrast to the triangulated case, a ``half recollement in a Grothendieck category, given by the upper two sequences, always extends to a recollement. The paper deals with the possible ladders in a Grothendieck category and provides a complete classification. In particular, it is shown that five layers of a ladder lead to a splitting into the corresponding Serre subcategory and its localization.











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