Tannaka duality for enhanced triangulated categories I: reconstruction

Abstract

We develop Tannaka duality theory for dg categories. To any dg functor from a dg category $\mathcal A$ to finite-dimensional complexes, we associate a dg coalgebra $C$ via a Hochschild homology construction. When the dg functor is faithful, this gives a quasi-equivalence between the derived dg categories of $\mathcal A$-modules and of $C$-comodules. When $\mathcal A$ is Morita fibrant (i.e. an idempotent-complete pre-triangulated category), it is thus quasi-equivalent to the derived dg category of compact $C$-comodules. We give several applications for motivic Galois groups.