Auslander–Reiten Triangles and Grothendieck Groups of Triangulated Categories

Abstract

We prove that if the Auslander–Reiten triangles generate the relations for the Grothendieck group of a Hom-finite Krull–Schmidt triangulated category with a (co)generator, then the category has only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable objects up to translation. This gives a triangulated converse to a theorem of Butler and Auslander–Reiten on the relations for Grothendieck groups. Our approach has applications in the context of Frobenius categories.