Functors on locally finitely presented additive categories
Coherent functors 𝓢 → Ab from a compactly generated triangulated category into the category of abelian groups are studied. This is inspired by Auslander's classical analysis of coherent functors from a fixed abelian category into abelian groups. We characterize coherent functors and their filtered colimits in various ways. In addition, we investigate certain subcategories of 𝓢 which arise from families of coherent functors.
We propose a new method for defining a notion of support for objects in any compactly generated triangulated category admitting small coproducts. This approach is based on a construction of local cohomology functors on triangulated categories, with respect to a central ring of operators. Special cases are, for example, the theory for commutative noetherian rings due to Foxby and Neeman, the theory of Avramov and Buchweitz for complete intersection local rings, and varieties for representations of...
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