The homotopy theory of dg-categories and derived Morita theory

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DOI10.1007/S00222-006-0025-YzbMATH Open1118.18010arXivmath/0408337OpenAlexW2167791892MaRDI QIDQ877170FDOQ877170

Bertrand Toën

Publication date: 19 April 2007

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main purpose of this work is the study of the homotopy theory of dg-categories up to quasi-equivalences. Our main result provides a natural description of the mapping spaces between two dg-categories C and D in terms of the nerve of a certain category of (C,D)-bimodules. We also prove that the homotopy category Ho(dgCat) is cartesian closed (i.e. possesses internal Hom's relative to the tensor product). We use these two results in order to prove a derived version of Morita theory, describing the morphisms between dg-categories of modules over two dg-categories C and D as the dg-category of (C,D)-bi-modules. Finally, we give three applications of our results. The first one expresses Hochschild cohomology as endomorphisms of the identity functor, as well as higher homotopy groups of the emph{classifying space of dg-categories} (i.e. the nerve of the category of dg-categories and quasi-equivalences between them). The second application is the existence of a good theory of localization for dg-categories, defined in terms of a natural universal property. Our last application states that the dg-category of (continuous) morphisms between the dg-categories of quasi-coherent (resp. perfect) complexes on two schemes (resp. smooth and proper schemes) is quasi-equivalent to the dg-category of quasi-coherent complexes (resp. perfect) on their product.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408337




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