Cotorsion pairs in categories of quiver representations

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Abstract: We study the category mathrmRep(Q,mathcalM) of representations of a quiver Q with values in an abelian category mathcalM. Under certain assumptions, we show that every cotorsion pair (mathcalA,mathcalB) in mathcalM induces two (explicitly described) cotorsion pairs (Phi(mathcalA),mathrmRep(Q,mathcalB)) and (mathrmRep(Q,mathcalA),Psi(mathcalB)) in mathrmRep(Q,mathcalM). This is akin to a result by Gillespie, which asserts that a cotorsion pair (mathcalA,mathcalB) in mathcalM induces cotorsion pairs (widetildemathcalA,mathrmdg,widetildemathcalB) and (mathrmdg,widetildemathcalA,widetildemathcalB) in the category mathrmCh(mathcalM) of chain complexes in mathcalM. Special cases of our results recover descriptions of the projective and injective objects in mathrmRep(Q,mathcalM) proved by Enochs, Estrada, and Garcia Rozas.


Let \((X,\mathscr{O})\) be a ringed space. In his 2003 thesis, \textit{J. R. Gillespie} [``The flat model structure on chain complexes of modules. Ph. D. thesis, Wesleyan University. 61 p. (2003)] proved that the flat cotorsion pair \((\mathscr{F},\mathscr{C})\) in the category \(\mathrm{Sh}(\mathscr{O})\) of sheaves of \(\mathscr{O}\)-modules gives rise to induced cotorsion pairs \((\mathrm{dg}\widetilde{\mathscr{F}},\widetilde{\mathscr{C}})\) and \((\widetilde{\mathscr{F}},\mathrm{dg} \widetilde{\mathscr{C}})\) in the category \(\mathrm{Ch}(\mathscr{O})\) of chain complexes. In the same thesis, this is proved for more general Grothendieck categories instead of \(\mathrm{Sh}(\mathscr{O})\). The paper under review, which is inspired by Gillespie's results, takes a much more general point of view. For a left rooted quiver \(Q\), and a cotorsion pair \((\mathscr{A},\mathscr{B})\) in an abelian category \(\mathscr{M}\) with enough projectives and injectives satisfying AB4 and AB4\(^\ast\), the authors exhibit a cotorsion pair \((\Phi(\mathscr{A}),\mathrm{Rep}(Q,\mathscr{B}))\) in the category \(\mathrm{Rep}(Q,\mathscr{M})\) of \(Q\)-representations with values in \(\mathscr{M}\), and a similar cotorsion pair \((\mathrm{Rep}(Q,\mathscr{A}),\Psi(\mathscr{B}))\) in \(\mathrm{Rep}(Q,\mathscr{M})\). The descriptions of projectives or injectives of quiver representations, which have been obtained in a series of previous investigations by several authors, are recovered.




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