The \(p\)-order of topological triangulated categories. (English) Zbl 1294.18008

Schwede, Stefan

J. Topol. 6, No. 4, 868-914 (2013).

Triangulated categories are called algebraic in case they are constructed by localising procedures of homotopy categories of chain complexes of additive categories. Non-algebraic triangulated categories are called topological. The purpose of the present paper is to study the concept of a \(p\)-order of a triangulated category for a prime \(p\) in case of topological triangulated categories. The main result shows that the \(p\)-order of a topological triangulated category is at most \(p-1\), and in a second paper the author shows that the \(p\)-order of an algebraic triangulated category is always infinite. The main part of the paper defines and studies so-called cofibration categories, which are defined by a variant of Quillen’s axiom of a model category. The proof of the main result then passes to the homotopy category of so-called stable cofibration categories. An appendix gives a detailed construction of the homotopy category of a stable cofibration category and a proof that this category then is triangulated.

Reviewer: Alexander Zimmermann (Amiens)

MSC:

18E30	Derived categories, triangulated categories (MSC2010)
55P42	Stable homotopy theory, spectra

Keywords:

topological triangulated category; cofibration category; model category; \(p\)-order of triangulated category