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TRIANGULATED SUBCATEGORIES OF EXTENSIONS, STABLE T-STRUCTURES, AND TRIANGLES OF RECOLLEMENTS PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO Abstract. In a triangulated category T with a pair of triangulated subcategories X and Y, one may consider the subcategory of extensions X Y. We give conditions for X Y to be triangulated and use them to provide tools for constructing stable t-structures. In particular, we show how to construct so-called triangles of recollements, that is, triples of stable t-structures of the form (X, Y), (Y, Z), (Z, X). We easily recover some triangles of recollements known from the literature. 0. Introduction Let T be a triangulated category and let X, Y T be subcategories. extensions is defined by { there is a distinguished triangle X Y = e T x e y in T with x X, y Y The subcategory of This is a classic object which, as far as we know, was introduced by Beilinson, Bernstein, and Deligne in [2, 1.3.9] and has been used extensively since then, see for instance Bondal Van den Bergh [3, sec. 2], Iyama Yoshino [6, sec. 2], and Rouquier [11, sec. 3]. It has been well-known that X Y is triangulated if Hom T (X, Y) = 0. We have examined this condition to see that a substantial generalization provides exact characterization of X Y to be triangulated. Theorem A. Let X, Y T be triangulated subcategories. The subcategory X Y is triangulated if and only if Hom T/X Y (QX, QY) = 0, where T/X Y is the Verdier quotient and Q : T T/X Y is the quotient functor. Note that throughout, all subcategories are full and closed under isomorphisms in the ambient category, and that if Q : T T is a functor and X T a subcategory, then QX denotes the isomorphism closure of { Qx x X } in T, viewed as a subcategory. Theorem A is a main ingredient in the proof of Theorem B below which is a tool for constructing stable t-structures. Recall that a stable t-structure in T is a pair (X, Y) of subcategories which are stable under Σ and satisfy Hom T (X, Y) = 0 and X Y = T, see [9, def. 9.14]. Stable t-structures are important in several settings which involve triangulated categories, see for 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 18E30, 18E35, 18G35. Key words and phrases. Homotopy category, quotient category, recollement, stable t-structure, subcategory of extensions, triangle of recollements, triangulated category. 1 }.

2 PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO instance [5]. In particular, they play a prominent role in algebraic geometry where they are known as semi-orthogonal decompositions, see for instance [4]. Note that if X,..., Y T are subcategories, then X,..., Y denotes the smallest triangulated subcategory containing them. Theorem B. Each row in the following table defines a triangulated subcategory U T and considers the quotient functor Q : T T/U. It then shows one or more stable t-structures in T/U. Given triangulated subcategories of T... Which satisfy... Define... Then there are stable t-structures in T/U... X, Y X Y = T U = X Y (QX, QY) X, Y, Z X Y = T Y Z = T U = X Y, Y Z (QX, QY) (QY, QZ) X, Y, Z X Y = T Y Z = T Z X = T U = X Y, Y Z, Z X (QX, QY) (QY, QZ) (QZ, QX) Note that the penultimate row of the table gives two adjacent stable t-structures, and that this is equivalent to giving a recollement, see [5, prop. 1.8]. The last row gives three cyclically adjacent stable t-structures. In the terminology of [5, def. 1.9], the triple (QX, QY, QZ) is a triangle of recollements. It is somewhat surprising that such a structure is possible, but it provides a setup with a large number of pleasant symmetries, see for instance [5, props. 1.10 and 1.16]. We show in Section 6 how Theorem B easily recovers two triangles of recollements known from [5, thm. 5.8] and [8, thm. 2.10]. Our third main theorem is a variation on a part of Theorem B; it is also proved by means of Theorem A. Note that a thick subcategory is a triangulated subcategory closed under direct summands. If (X, Y) is a stable t-structure, then X and Y are thick by [9, prop. 9.15]. Theorem C. Let U T be a thick subcategory, Q : T T/U the quotient functor. There is a bijection { } X, Y T thick subcategories (X, Y) { stable t-structures in T/U } with X Y = U and X Y = T given by (X, Y) (QX, QY). The paper is organised as follows: Section 1 gives the proof of Theorem A. Section 2 proves some lemmas needed later. Sections 3 and 4 give the proofs of Theorems B and C. Section

EXTENSIONS, T-STRUCTURES, TRIANGLES OF RECOLLEMENTS 3 5 gives another result based on Theorem A, and Section 6 uses Theorem B to recover two triangles of recollements known from the literature. 1. Proof of Theorem A We shall begin with the following observation which helps us to prove Theorem A. Lemma 1.1. Let X, Y T be triangulated subcategories. The following conditions are equivalent. (i) X Y is triangulated. (ii) Y X X Y. (iii) Each morphism x y with x X, y Y factors through an object from X Y. (i) (ii): (i) (ii) is obvious. (ii) (i): Since Y X X Y, we can compute as follows using that is associative by [2, lem. 1.3.10]. (X Y) (X Y) = X (Y X) Y X (X Y) Y = (X X) (Y Y) = X Y. So X Y is closed under extensions, and since it is also closed under Σ ±1, it is triangulated. We should mention (i) (ii) immediately follows also from Lemma 2.1 since (i) equivalently says X Y = X, Y. (ii) (iii): Let x y be a morphism with x X, y Y. Completing to a distinguished triangle x y c, we have c Y X X Y, so there is a distinguished triangle x 1 c y 1 with x 1 X, y 1 Y. The octahedral axiom provides a commutative diagram where rows and columns are distinguished triangles. Σ 1 x 1 0 x 1 x y c w y y 1 The first column shows w X and the last row shows w Y, so x w y is a factorization as claimed in (iii). (iii) (ii): If e Y X is given then there is a distinguished triangle y e x ξ Σy with y Y, x X. Use (iii) to factorise ξ as x w Σy with w X Y. The octahedral axiom

4 PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO again gives a commutative diagram where rows and columns are distinguished triangles. x 1 x 1 0 e x ξ Σy y 1 w Σy The second column shows x 1 X and the last row shows y 1 Y, so the first column shows e X Y. Remark 1.2. The equivalence between (i) and (ii) is a triangulated analogue of [13, thm. 3.2] on Serre subcategories of module categories. Proof of Theorem A. It suffices to show that (iii) of Lemma 1.1 is equivalent to the following. (iv) We have Hom T/X Y (QX, QY) = 0, where T/X Y is the Verdier quotient and Q : T T/X Y is the quotient functor. Indeed, this is due to Verdier. Namely, using his terminology, condition (iii) is equivalent to Y being X-localisante à droite by [12, prop. II.2.3.5(a)]. By [12, prop. II.2.3.5(c)] this is equivalent to Y/X Y consisting of objects which are R-libre à droite where R : T/X Y T/X is the quotient functor. Finally, this is equivalent to condition (iv) by [12, prop. II.2.3.3(a)]. Remark 1.3. We could have added the following conditions to Lemma 1.1 (v) If X T is a triangulated subcategory such that X Y X X, then X Y is triangulated. (vi) If Y T is a triangulated subcategory such that X Y Y Y, then X Y is triangulated. Namely, there are implications as follows between these and conditions (i) (iii) of Lemma 1.1 and (iv) in the proof of Theorem A. (iii) (v): It is enough to see Y X X Y, but this follows by a small variation of the proof of (iii) (ii) in Lemma 1.1. (iii) (vi) is similar, and (v) (i) and (vi) (i) are trivial. The following consequence of Theorem A is well-known, but we do not know a published reference. Corollary 1.4. If X, Y T are triangulated subcategories with Hom T (X, Y) = 0, then X Y is triangulated.

EXTENSIONS, T-STRUCTURES, TRIANGLES OF RECOLLEMENTS 5 Proof. Since Hom T (X, Y) = 0 implies that X Y is trivial, Q : T T/X Y is an equivalence. Hence Hom T/X Y (QX, QY) = Hom T (X, Y) = 0. Due to Theorem A, X Y is triangulated. 2. Lemmas The following lemma uses the notation X n = X X with X repeated n times. Lemma 2.1. If X, Y T are subcategories closed under Σ ±1 and containing 0, then X, Y = n 1(X Y) n. Proof. The inclusion is clear and holds because the right hand side contains X and Y, and is closed under Σ ±1 and extensions so is triangulated. Lemma 2.2. Let X X T and Y Y T be triangulated subcategories such that X Y is triangulated. Then (i) X X, Y = X, X Y, (ii) X, Y Y = X Y, Y. Proof. Part (ii) is clear from part (i) by symmetry. In (i) the inclusion is clear. To prove in (i), it is enough by Lemma 2.1 to show X (Y X ) n X, X Y for each n 1. We do so by showing the stronger statement { (a) X (Y X ) n X, X Y, Q n = for each n 1 by induction. (b) X ( (Y X ) n Y ) X, X Y n = 1: To show Q 1, part (a), let e X (Y X ) be given. There is a distinguished triangle y e x with y Y, x X. Since e and x are both in X, so is y, so we have y X Y whence the distinguished triangle shows e (X Y) X X, X Y. To show Q 1, part (b), let e X ( (Y X ) Y ) be given. Since is associative we have e Y (X Y) so there is a distinguished triangle y e a with y Y, a X Y. There is also a distinguished triangle x 1 a y 1 with x 1 X, y 1 Y. We have e X, y 1 Y, so by Lemma 1.1 the composition e a y 1 factors as e w y 1 for an object w X Y. The 9-lemma [9, prop. 4.9] now provides a commutative diagram where rows and columns are distinguished triangles. y 3 x 2 x 1 y e a y 2 w y 1

6 PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO The second column shows x 2 X. The third row shows y 2 Y, whence the first column shows y 3 Y and the first row shows x 2 Y X. Hence x 2 X (Y X ) whence Q 1, part (a) shows x 2 X, X Y. Then the second column shows e X, X Y as desired. n 2: To show Q n, part (a), let e X (Y X ) n be given. Since is associative there is a distinguished triangle y e a with y Y, a (X Y) (n 1) X. There is also a distinguished triangle b a x with b (X Y) (n 1), x X. The octahedral axiom provides a commutative diagram where rows and columns are distinguished triangles. y x b y e a 0 x x The second column shows x X and the first row shows x Y (X Y) (n 1) = (Y X ) (n 1) Y. Statement Q n 1, part (b), hence shows x X, X Y, and then the second column shows e X, X Y as desired. To show Q n, part (b), let e X ( (Y X ) n Y ) be given. Since is associative there is a distinguished triangle y e a with y Y, a (X Y) n. There is also a distinguished triangle b a y 1 with b X (Y X ) (n 1), y 1 Y. As above, the composition e a y 1 factors as e w y 1 for an object w X Y, and we obtain another commutative diagram where rows and columns are distinguished triangles. y 3 x b y e a y 2 w y 1 The second column shows x X. The third row shows y 2 Y whence the first column shows y 3 Y and the first row shows x (Y X ) n. Hence x X (Y X ) n whence Q n, part (a) shows x X, X Y. The second column shows e X, X Y as desired. If Q : T T is a functor and X T is a subcategory then Q 1 X = { t T Qt X } will be viewed as a subcategory of X. Remark 2.3. If U T is a thick subcategory, then X QX gives a bijection { } triangulated subcategories X T { triangulated subcategories of T/U } with U X T with inverse Y Q 1 Y. Under the bijection, thick subcategories correspond to thick subcategories. See [12, prop. II.2.3.1]. Lemma 2.4. Let U T be a thick subcategory and let Q : T T/U be the quotient functor.

EXTENSIONS, T-STRUCTURES, TRIANGLES OF RECOLLEMENTS 7 (i) If X, Y T are triangulated subcategories with U X Y, then (a) Q(X Y) = QX QY, (b) Q(X Y) = QX QY. (ii) If X T is any subcategory then Q 1 QX = U X U. Proof. (i.a): The inclusion is clear. To see, let Qz QX QY be given. Then Qz QX so z Q 1 QX = X where we used U X and Remark 2.3. Similarly we get z Y so z X Y whence Qz Q(X Y). (i.b): The inclusion is clear. To see, let Qz QX QY be given. There is a distinguished triangle Qx Qz Qy in T/U with x X, y Y. By [9, def. 8.4] the triangle has the form Q(a c b) for a distinguished triangle a c b in T. Then Qa = Qx so Qa QX, and as in the proof of (i.a) we get a X. Similarly we get b Y so c X Y whence Qz = Qc Q(X Y). (ii): The inclusion follows from Q(U X U) = Q(U) Q(X) Q(U) and QU = 0; indeed, Q is an exact functor and U is the kernel of Q by [12, cor. II.2.2.11(a)]. To see, let z Q 1 QX be given. This means Qz QX so there is an isomorphism Qx Qz with x X. By [10, def. 2.1.11], the isomorphism is represented by a diagram x ψ w χ z in T with cone(ψ) U. That is, the isomorphism equals (Qχ)(Qψ) 1. Since Qψ and (Qχ)(Qψ) 1 are isomorphisms, so is Qχ, and it follows that 0 = cone(qχ) = Q(cone χ) whence cone(χ) U. From x X and cone(ψ) U follows w U X, and together with cone(χ) U this shows z U X U. 3. Proof of Theorem B Before the proof, recall again that a stable t-structure in T is a pair (X, Y) of subcategories which are stable under Σ and satisfy Hom T (X, Y) = 0 and X Y = T. Proof of Theorem B, the first row of the table, in which we have triangulated subcategories X, Y T satisfying X Y = T. We set U = X Y and consider the quotient functor Q : T T/U. We must show that (QX, QY) is a stable t-structure in T/U. Since X, Y are closed under Σ in T, it follows that QX, QY are closed under Σ in T/U. Moreover, X Y = T clearly implies QX QY = T/U. Finally, Theorem A implies Hom T/U (QX, QY) = 0. Proof of Theorem B, the second row of the table, in which we have triangulated subcategories X, Y, Z T satisfying X Y = Y Z = T. We set U = X Y, Y Z and consider the quotient functor Q : T T/U. We must show that the pairs (QX, QY) and (QY, QZ) are stable t-structures in T/U. It suffices to show a proof for the first pair as the second is similar. Set Y = Y Z, X = X, Y. Since Y U we have Q X = QX, so it is enough to show that (Q X, QY) is a stable t-structure.

8 PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO Since X, Y are closed under Σ in T, it follows that Q X, QY are closed under Σ in T/U. Moreover, X Y = T implies X Y = T whence Q X QY = T/U is clear. Finally, we have Y Y whence Lemma 2.2(ii) gives the second = in X Y = X, Y Y = X Y, Y = X Y, Y Z = U. Since X Y = T is triangulated, Theorem A implies Hom T/U (Q X, QY) = 0. Proof of Theorem B, the third row of the table, in which we have triangulated subcategories X, Y, Z T satisfying X Y = Y Z = Z X = T. We set U = X Y, Y Z, Z X and consider the quotient functor Q : T T/U. We must show that the pairs (QX, QY), (QY, QZ), (QZ, QX) are stable t-structures in T/U. It suffices to show a proof for the first pair as the others are similar. Indeed, this can be shown analogously to the previous case by setting Y = Y Z, X = X, Y X = Z X, Ỹ = Y, X. Then Q X = QX, QỸ = QY, and it is enough to show that (Q X, QỸ) is a stable t-structure. As above, Q X, QỸ are closed under Σ in T/U and Q X QỸ = T/U. Finally, since X X, Y Y, a computation based on Lemma 2.2(i and ii) gives X Ỹ = U. As above, Theorem A then implies Hom T/U (Q X, QỸ) = 0. 4. Proof of Theorem C When X, Y T are thick subcategories satisfying X Y = U and X Y = T, the first item of the table in Theorem B shows that (QX, QY) is a stable t-structure in T/U. Hence (X, Y) (QX, QY) is indeed a map { } X, Y T thick subcategories (X, Y) { stable t-structures in T/U }, (4.1) with X Y = U and X Y = T as claimed in Theorem C. The map (4.1) is injective because of Remark 2.3. The map (4.1) is surjective: A stable t-structure in T/U consists of two thick subcategories. By Remark 2.3 it has the form (QX, QY) for two unique thick subcategories X, Y satisfying U X Y T. To complete the proof, we must show X Y = U and X Y = T. Lemma 2.4(i.a) gives Q(X Y) = QX QY = 0. This implies X Y = U by Remark 2.3. Note that as a consequence, so X Y is triangulated by Theorem A. Hom T/X Y (QX, QY) = Hom T/U (QX, QY) = 0 Lemma 2.4(i.b) gives Q(X Y) = QX QY = T/U = QT. This implies X Y = T by Remark 2.3 since X Y is a triangulated subcategory satisfying U X Y T.

EXTENSIONS, T-STRUCTURES, TRIANGLES OF RECOLLEMENTS 9 5. Another result on subcategories of extensions Theorem 5.1. Let X, Y, V be thick subcategories of T satisfying X Y V T and X Y = T. The following are equivalent. (i) X V is triangulated. (ii) V Y is triangulated. (iii) V = (X V) (Y V). Proof. Write U = X Y and let Q : T T/U be the quotient functor. Note that QX, QY, QV are thick (and in particular triangulated) subcategories of T/U by Remark 2.3. We claim that each condition in the theorem is equivalent to the corresponding condition in the following list. (i ) QX QV is triangulated. (ii ) QV QY is triangulated. (iii ) QV = (QX QV) (QY QV). (i) (i ): By Lemma 1.1 this amounts to V X X V QV QX QX QV. But follows from Lemma 2.4(i.b) and can be seen as follows using Lemma 2.4(i.b and ii). QV QX QX QV Q(V X) Q(X V) The last holds since U V and U X. (ii) (ii ) and (iii) (iii ): Similar. Q 1 Q(V X) Q 1 Q(X V) U V X U U X V U V X X V. We now show that (i ) through (iii ) are equivalent. (i ) (iii ): The inclusion is obvious. We shall show. The condition X Y = T clearly implies QX QY = T/U so given Qv QV there is a distinguished triangle Qx Qv Qy ΣQx (5.1) in T/U with Qx QX, Qy QY. This shows Qy QV QX but (i ) means QV QX QX QV by Lemma 1.1, so Qy QX QV. Hence there is a distinguished triangle Qx 1 Qy Qv 1 with Qx 1 QX, Qv 1 QV, but Hom T/U (QX, QY) = 0 by Theorem A so the triangle splits whence Qy is a direct summand of Qv 1. Since QV is thick this implies Qy QV. The distinguished triangle (5.1) then shows Qx QV. We have shown Qx QX QV, Qy QY QV so (5.1) shows (iii ). (iii ) (i ): When (iii ) holds we have QX QV = QX ( (QX QV) (QY QV) ) = ( QX (QX QV) ) (QY QV) = QX (QY QV)

10 PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO so it is enough to see that QX (QY QV) is triangulated. However, QX and QY QV are both triangulated by Remark 2.3 and Hom T/U (QX, QY QV) = 0 because Hom T/U (QX, QY) = 0 by Theorem A. Hence QX (QY QV) is triangulated by Corollary 1.4. (ii ) (iii ) follows by similar arguments. 6. Examples 6.a. The homotopy category of projective modules. Let R be an Iwanaga-Gorenstein ring, that is, a noetherian ring which has finite injective dimension from either side as a module over itself. Let T = K (b) (Prj R) be the homotopy category of complexes of projective right-rmodules with bounded homology. Define subcategories of T by X = K (b) (Prj R), Y = K ac(prj R), Z = K + (b)(prj R) where K i (b)(prj R) is the isomorphism closure of the class of complexes P with P = 0 for i 0 and K + (b) (Prj R) is defined analogously with i 0, while K ac(prj R) is the subcategory of acyclic (that is, exact) complexes. Note that Y is equal to K tac (Prj R), the subcategory of totally acyclic complexes, that is, acyclic complexes which stay acyclic under the functor Hom R (, Q) when Q is projective, see [7, cor. 5.5 and par. 5.12]. By [5, prop. 2.3(1), lem. 5.6(1), and rmk. 5.14] there are stable t-structures (X, Y), (Y, Z) in T, so X Y = Y Z = T, X Y = Y Z = 0. If P T is given, then there is a distinguished triangle P 0 P P <0 where P 0 and P <0 are the hard truncations. Since P 0 Z and P <0 X, we have Finally, Z X = T. Z X = K + (b) (Prj R) K (b) (Prj R) = Kb (Prj R) is the isomorphism closure of the class of bounded complexes. If we use an obvious shorthand for quotient categories, then the last row of the table in Theorem B now provides a triangle of recollements ( K (b) /Kb (Prj R), K ac (Prj R), K + (b) /Kb (Prj R) ) in K (b) /K b (Prj R). The reason that we can write K ac (Prj R) instead of its image in K (b) /K b (Prj R) is that the two are equivalent by [5, prop. 1.5]. This example and its analogue with finitely generated projective modules were first obtained in [5, thms. 2.8 and 5.8] and motivated the definition of triangles of recollements.

EXTENSIONS, T-STRUCTURES, TRIANGLES OF RECOLLEMENTS 11 6.b. The symmetric Auslander category. Let R be a noetherian commutative ring with a dualizing complex. In [8, def. 2.1] we introduced the symmetric Auslander category A s (R) as the isomorphism closure in K (b) (Prj R) of the class of complexes P for which there exist T, U K tac (Prj R) such that P 0 = T 0 and P 0 = U 0. The methods of [8, sec. 2] show that there are stable t-structures ( A(R), Ktac (Prj R) ) (, Ktac (Prj R), S(B(R)) ) in A s (R) with S(B(R)) A(R) = A s (R). Here A(R) and B(R) are the Auslander and Bass categories of R, see [1, sec. 3], and S is the functor introduced in [7, sec. 4.3]. Since A(R) (resp. S(B(R))) consists of right-bounded (resp. left-bounded) complexes P such that P 0 = T 0 (resp. P 0 = T 0 ) for some T K tac (Prj R) [8, Rem. 2.2], we have A(R) S(B(R)) = K b (Prj R). With T = A s (R) and X = A(R), Y = K tac (Prj R), Z = S(B(R)), the last row of the table in Theorem B recovers the triangle of recollements ( A(R)/K b (Prj R), K tac (Prj R), S(B(R))/K b (Prj R) ) in A s (R)/K b (Prj R) first obtained in [8, thm. 2.10]. As in the previous example, the category K tac (Prj R) is equivalent to its image in A s (R)/K b (Prj R) so we can write K tac (Prj R) instead of the image. Acknowledgement. We gratefully acknowledge support from JSPS Grant 22540053 and a Scheme 2 Grant from the London Mathematical Society. References [1] L. L. Avramov and H.-B. Foxby, Ring homomorphisms and finite Gorenstein dimension, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 75 (1997), 241 270. [2] A. A. Beilinson, J. Bernstein, and P. Deligne, Faisceaux pervers, Astérisque 100 (1982) (Vol. 1 of the proceedings of the conference Analysis and topology on singular spaces, Luminy, 1981). [3] A. Bondal and M. Van den Bergh, Generators and representability of functors in commutative and noncommutative geometry, Mosc. Math. J. 3 (2003), 1 36. [4] D. Huybrechts, Fourier-Mukai transforms in algebraic geometry, Oxford Mathematical Monographs, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. [5] O. Iyama, K. Kato, and J. Miyachi, Recollement of homotopy categories and Cohen-Macaulay modules, J. K-Theory 8 (2011), 507 542. [6] O. Iyama and Y. Yoshino, Mutation in triangulated categories and rigid Cohen-Macaulay modules, Invent. Math. 172 (2008), 117 168. [7] S. Iyengar and H. Krause, Acyclicity versus total acyclicity for complexes over noetherian rings, Doc. Math. 11 (2006), 207 240. [8] P. Jørgensen and K. Kato, Symmetric Auslander and Bass categories, Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 250 (2011), 227 240. [9] J. Miyachi, Derived Categories with applications to representations of algebras, Chiba University, 2000. Available at the author s webpage: http://www.u-gakugei.ac.jp/~miyachi/seminar.html. [10] A. Neeman, Triangulated categories, Ann. of Math. Stud., Vol. 148, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001. [11] R. Rouquier, Dimensions of triangulated categories, J. K-Theory 1 (2008), 193 256.

12 PETER JØRGENSEN AND KIRIKO KATO [12] J.-L. Verdier, Des catégories dérivées des catégories abéliennes, with a preface by Luc Illusie; edited and with a note by Georges Maltsiniotis, Astérisque 239 (1996). [13] T. Yoshizawa, Subcategories of extension modules by Serre subcategories, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 2293-2305. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom E-mail address: peter.jorgensen@ncl.ac.uk URL: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/peter.jorgensen Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan E-mail address: kiriko@mi.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp URL: http://www.mi.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~kiriko