Presheaves of triangulated categories and reconstruction of schemes

Abstract: To any triangulated category with tensor product

(K, o t i m e s)

, we associate a topological space

S p c (K, o t i m e s)

, by means of thick subcategories of

K

, a la Hopkins-Neeman-Thomason. Moreover, to each open subset

U

of

S p c (K, o t i m e s)

, we associate a triangulated category

K (U)

, producing what could be thought of as a presheaf of triangulated categories. Applying this to the derived category

(K, o t i m e s) := (D^{p e r f} (X), o t i m e s^{L})

of perfect complexes on a noetherian scheme

X

, the topological space

S p c (K, o t i m e s)

turns out to be the underlying topological space of

X

; moreover, for each open

U s u b s e t X

, the category

K (U)

is naturally equivalent to

D^{p e r f} (U)

. As an application, we give a method to reconstruct any reduced noetherian scheme

X

from its derived category of perfect complexes

D^{p e r f} (X)

, considering the latter as a tensor triangulated category with

o t i m e s^{L}

.

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