A representability theorem for some huge abelian categories

DOI10.4310/HHA.2012.V14.N2.A2MaRDI QIDQ1758723zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors George Ciprian Modoi

Publication date 16 November 2012

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5937

zbMATH Keywords

abelianizationBrown representability theoremquasi-locally presentable categoryrepresentable functortriangulated category with coproducts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Adjoint functors (universal constructions, reflective subcategories, Kan extensions, etc.) (18A40)

Abstract: We define quasi--locally presentable categories as big unions of coreflective subcategories which are locally presentable. Under appropriate hypotheses we prove a representability theorem for exact contravariant functors defined on a quasi--locally presentable category taking values in abelian groups. We show that the abelianization of a well generated triangulated category is quasi--locally presentable and we obtain a new proof of Brown representability theorem. Examples of functors which are not representable are also given.

Review text

In the present paper the author studies the existence of right/left adjoint for a triangulated functor \(\mathcal{T}\to \mathcal Ab\), where \(\mathcal T\) is a triangulated category, and \(\mathcal Ab\) is the category of all abelian groups. This study is motivated by the fact that in general the abelianization of a triangulated category is too big, and classical characterization of the existence of adjoint functors cannot be applied. However, the author proved that even if the abelianization of a well generated triangulated category is not well (co)powered the general Freyd's adjoint functor theorem can be applied. In order to do this the notion of quasi-locally presentable category is introduced. As a consequence of these results probed for these categories, a new proof for the Brown representability theorem for well generated triangulated categories is provided (Corollary 2.6).

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