REPRESENTATION THEORY AND RELATED TOPICS SEMINAR
ABSTRACT: Given a
not-necessarily commutative ring with unit and an additive
subcategory of the category of right modules, one can
consider complexes of modules in the subcategory and the
corresponding homotopy category. Sometimes, these homotopy
categories are the first step in studying other
(algebraic) homotopy categories, such us those associated
to a scheme. To study these categories, one can use
results from the category of modules or the category of
complexes. In the first part of the talk, we will see how
some results of homotopy categories of complexes extend to
homotopy categories of N-complexes, for a natural number N
greater than or equal to 2, using some techniques from
module categories, such us the deconstruction of a class
of modules.
Another approximation is to use other methods for studying
homotopy categories, like those coming from triangulated
categories. In some cases, the results obtained in
homotopy categories have some consequences in the category
of modules. In the second part of the talk, we will see
how to prove the existence of Gorenstein-projective
precovers for some specific rings using this approach.
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