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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 31 (2025), 701-721

  

Benjamin Briggs, Srikanth B. Iyengar, and Greg Stevenson

Proxy-small objects present compactly generated categories

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Published: April 12, 2025.
Keywords: compactly generated triangulated category, complete intersection, small object, proxy-small object.
Subject [2010]: 18G80 (primary); 13D09 (secondary).

Abstract
We develop a correspondence between presentations of compactly generated triangulated categories as localizations of derived categories of ring spectra and proxy-small objects, and explore some consequences. In addition, we give a characterization of proxy-smallness in terms of coproduct preservation of the associated corepresentable functor `up to base change'.

Acknowledgements

Briggs was partly supported by the European Union under Grant Agreement 10106455, and Iyengar was partly supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-2001368.


Author information

Benjamin Briggs
Department of Mathematics
Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus
Imperial College London
London, SW7 2AZ, U.K.

b.briggs@imperial.ac.uk

Srikanth B. Iyengar
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A.

srikanth.b.iyengar@utah.edu

Greg Stevenson
Aarhus University
Department of Mathematics
Ny Munkegade 118, bldg. 1530
DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

greg@math.au.dk