Classifying localizing subcategories of a Grothendieck category
Reza Sazeedeh
TL;DR
This work develops a spectrum-based framework to classify localizing subcategories of finite type in locally coherent Grothendieck categories by translating subcategory data into topological data on atom-related spectra. It introduces the Zariski-atom spectrum $\mathrm{ZASpec}\,\mathcal{A}$ and the Ziegler spectrum $\mathrm{Zg}\,\mathcal{A}$, establishing bijections between Serre subcategories of $\mathrm{fp-}\mathcal{A}$ and open sets in $\mathrm{ZASpec}\,\mathcal{A}$, and between open sets in $\mathrm{ZASpec}\,\mathcal{A}$ and localizing subcategories of finite type in $\mathcal{A}$. The results connect atom-theoretic data with injective envelopes and show when $\mathcal{A}$ is locally noetherian via a Cohen-type criterion. For commutative coherent rings, the paper provides a complete correspondence among open subsets of Hochster-dual Spec, closed sets in the Ziegler spectrum, Gabriel topologies with finitely generated bases, and finite-type localizing subcategories of $\mathrm{Mod}\,A$, thereby giving a concrete classification in this important special case.
Abstract
Let $\cA$ be a locally coherent Grothendieck category, $\fp\cA$ be the full subcategory of $\cA$ consisting of finitely presented objects and $\ASpec\cA$ be the atom spectrum of $\cA$. In this paper, we classify localizing subcategories of finite type of $\cA$ via open subsets of $\ASpec\cA$. We investigate $\ASpec\fp\cA$ and show that if $\ASpec\fp\cA=\ASpec\cA$, then $\cA$ is locally noetherian. As an application, we specialize our investigation to the case of commutative coherent rings.
