Almost split morphisms in subcategories of triangulated categories

Abstract

For a suitable triangulated category $\mathcal{T}$ with a Serre functor $S$ and a full precovering subcategory $\mathcal{C}$ closed under summands and extensions, an indecomposable object $C$ in $\mathcal{C}$ is called Ext-projective if Ext${}^1(C,\mathcal{C})=0$. Then there is no Auslander-Reiten triangle in $\mathcal{C}$ with end term $C$. In this paper, we show that if, for such an object $C$, there is a minimal right almost split morphism $\beta :B\to C$ in $\mathcal{C}$, then $C$ appears in something very similar to an Auslander-Reiten triangle in $\mathcal{C}$: an essentially unique triangle in $\mathcal{T}$ of the form \begin{align*} Δ= X\xrightarrowξ B\xrightarrowβ C\rightarrow ΣX, \end{align*} where $X$ is an indecomposable not in $\mathcal{C}$ and $\xi$ is a $\mathcal{C}$-envelope of $X$. Moreover, under some extra assumptions, we show that removing $C$ from $\mathcal{C}$ and replacing it with $X$ produces a new subcategory of $\mathcal{T}$ closed under extensions. We prove that this process coincides with the classic mutation of $\mathcal{C}$ with respect to the rigid subcategory of $\mathcal{C}$ generated by all the indecomposable Ext-projectives in $\mathcal{C}$ apart from $C$. When $\mathcal{T}$ is the cluster category of Dynkin type $A_n$ and $\mathcal{C}$ has the above properties, we give a full description of the triangles in $\mathcal{T}$ of the form $\Delta$ and show under which circumstances replacing $C$ by $X$ gives a new extension closed subcategory.

23 pages. Final version as it appears in Journal of Algebra and Its Applications

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• Mutation in triangulated categories and rigid Cohen-Macaulay modules