On exact dg categories

arXiv2306.08231MaRDI QIDQ6440239FDOQ6440239

Authors: Xiaofa Chen 

Publication date: 14 June 2023

Abstract: We introduce the notion of an exact dg category, which is a simultaneous generalization of the notions of exact category in the sense of Quillen and of pretriangulated dg category in the sense of Bondal--Kapranov. It is also a differential graded analogue of Barwick's notion of exact $infty$-category and a differential graded enhancement of Nakaoka--Palu's notion of extriangulated category. It is completely different from Positselski's notion of exact DG-category. Our motivations come for example from the categories appearing in the additive categorification of cluster algebras with coefficients. We give a definition in complete analogy with Quillen's but where the category of kernel-cokernel pairs is replaced with a more sophisticated homotopy category. We obtain a number of fundamental results concerning the dg nerve, the dg derived category, tensor products and functor categories with exact dg target. For example, we show that for a given dg category $mathcalA$ with additive homotopy category $H^0(mathcalA)$, there is a bijection between exact structures on $mathcalA$ and exact structures (in the sense of Barwick) on the dg nerve of $mathcalA$. We also show the existence of the greatest exact structure on a (small) dg category with additive homotopy category. This generalizes a theorem of Rump for Quillen exact categories.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chain complexes (category-theoretic aspects), dg categories (18G35) Cluster algebras (13F60) Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Resolutions; derived functors (category-theoretic aspects) (18G10) Relative homological algebra, projective classes (category-theoretic aspects) (18G25) Derived categories, triangulated categories (18G80) ((infty,1))-categories (quasi-categories, Segal spaces, etc.); (infty)-topoi, stable (infty)-categories (18N60) Stable module categories (18G65)

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